Re: [PLUG] Install VM and LAMP from script

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:23:12 -0400
> From: Paul Walker<starsinmypockets@gmail.com>
>
> I'm trying to spin up a development workflow for LAMP, which would involve
> instantiating a virtual machine, installing config and dependencies and
> integrating with version control using a deployment script.
[...]
> ...some suggestions for appropriate
> tools - I'm thinking Virtual Box? I suppose that I could pull from an
> Ubuntu distro, but I'm not sure how to get that into Virtual Box via
> script? Any advice is appreciated.

If this is Ubuntu-ish, then Juju 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juju_%28software%29) is Canonical's vision 
of the future.  (Hmmm, Juju'd be a good preso.)  Your specific LAMP case 
is usually the use-case or example for explaining Juju.  Note that many 
of the Juju examples reference "the cloud" but you do NOT need to really 
use the cloud, that's one of the benefits.  It's intended to be a "write 
once, run against almost anything" DevOps tool, as I understand it.  See 
also https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MAAS.

Disclaimer: I've never actually used Juju, all I know about it is what 
I've read in various Ubuntu & Canonical blogs.  But I do know that once 
they set their minds to something, they usually stick to it (e.g., Unity).

Having said that, I just read _Learning CFEngine_ and I liked it.  It 
made a good case for *not* doing it via bash or Perl or whatever, but 
instead do the learning curve for an engine.  I'd like a good CFEngine 
cookbook, and I don't see it, but I also understand the web site & docs 
are particularly good.

While Juju seems to be Ubuntu's future, CFEngine has been around for 20 
years and is very mature and powerful.  I'm going to be looking at it 
more.  It's also C.  Puppet and Chef are both Ruby, which is a minus for 
me since I *assume* that will pull in tons of Ruby stuff on an otherwise 
minimal system.

To close, I've usually done stuff like that in bash, but will be looking 
more into CFEngine for now (for CentOS $WORK stuff) and Juju in the 
future (for $HOME Ubuntu stuff).  Maybe you can do a preso on your solution?

Later,
JP
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