rackspace hack night - vagrant & packer

Vagrant & Packer RAX Hack Night

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So…

I automated *all* the things


So…

Feel quite smug about it


So…

Got my environments in order

DEV QA PROD


So…

All is good


So…

OR IS IT?!?!


So…


So… the problem

How do you get your DEVs mobile?


So… the problem

Have a dev portable platform!that is the *SAME* everywhere


So… the problem

Why the hell they all work from Starbucks?!?!?


Vagrant!


Vagrant!

You have a base Box VM

Attach to chef or Puppet!Add some script sprinkles

or something else


Base Box

You have a base Box


Base Box

Where can I run this Base Box?VirtualBox!

VMWare Fusion!VMWare Workstation


Base Box

Where can I run this Base Box?Rackspace Cloud!

Amazon!OpenStack


Base Box

As simple as 1…2…3…vagrant box add $title $BOX_URL

vagrant init $title

vagrant up


Plugins!

ansible

vagrant-‐berkshelf

vagrant-‐librarian-‐puppet

vagrant-‐lxc

vagrant-‐salt


Vagrantfile

Defines what Vagrant will do


VagrantfileVagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.box = "precise64"

config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"

config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.10"

config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data"

config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "-‐-‐memory", "1024"]

end

end

!


VagrantfileVagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.box = "precise64"

config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"

config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.10"

config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|

puppet.manifests_path = "manifests"

puppet.manifest_file = "init.pp"

end

end

!!


Taking this to 11!


Taking this to 11!


And now…


And now…

Packer!


Packer

Do your GMs RIGHT


PackerAdd that Puppet!you always!wanted


Packer


Packer

From a single config file


Packer

Deploy EVERYWHERE


Packer

Amazon AWS!Digital Ocean!

OpenStack!VMWare


Packer{

"builders": [{

"type": "amazon-‐ebs",

"access_key": "YOUR KEY HERE",

"secret_key": "YOUR SECRET KEY HERE",

"region": "us-‐east-‐1",

"source_ami": "ami-‐de0d9eb7",

"instance_type": "t1.micro",

"ssh_username": "ubuntu",

"ami_name": "packer-‐example {{timestamp}}"

}]

}


Packer$ packer build example.json ==> amazon-‐ebs: amazon-‐ebs output will be in this color. ==> amazon-‐ebs: Creating temporary keypair for this instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Authorizing SSH access on the temporary security group... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Launching a source AWS instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Waiting for instance to become ready... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Connecting to the instance via SSH... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Stopping the source instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Waiting for the instance to stop... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Creating the AMI: packer-‐example 1371856345 ==> amazon-‐ebs: AMI: ami-‐19601070 ==> amazon-‐ebs: Waiting for AMI to become ready... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Deleting temporary security group... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Deleting temporary keypair... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Build finished. !==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are: -‐-‐> amazon-‐ebs: AMIs were created: !us-‐east-‐1: ami-‐19601070


Packer

Deploy to more than one!provider at the same time!using the “builders” array


Packer$ packer build example.json ==> amazon-‐ebs: amazon-‐ebs output will be in this color. ==> digitalocean: digitalocean output will be in this color. !==> digitalocean: Creating temporary ssh key for droplet... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Creating temporary keypair for this instance... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance... ==> digitalocean: Creating droplet... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Authorizing SSH access on the temporary security group... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Launching a source AWS instance... ==> digitalocean: Waiting for droplet to become active... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Waiting for instance to become ready... ==> digitalocean: Connecting to the droplet via SSH... ==> amazon-‐ebs: Connecting to the instance via SSH... ... ==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are: -‐-‐> amazon-‐ebs: AMIs were created: !us-‐east-‐1: ami-‐376d1d5e -‐-‐> digitalocean: A snapshot was created: packer-‐1371870364


Packer

Also deploy to Vagrant!using the “post-processors”!

array


Packer

{

"builders": [...],

! "provisioners": [...],

! "post-‐processors": ["vagrant"]

}

rackspace hack night - vagrant & packer

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