[Baypiggies] Volunteer for new talk (if there is interest): Vagrant

[Jeremy Dunck]

On Jan 27, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

> 
> All,
>     Vagrant is a tool that is *NOT* written in Python (It's written in Ruby). It's nothing but a way of making VirtualBox (and instances created within VirtualBox) controllable by the command line. (VirtualBox also not written in Python).
> 

It may be useful to note that Vagrant devs are working to add support for other vm systems. VirtualBox is the only current one, though.  I'd summarize vagrant as: a scripting environment for virtual machine creation.  I'm a fan. 

>     However, this gives us leverage to use Python tools on virtual machines locally.What this gives you is a way of testing virtual machines without having to use Amazon's AWS (and without paying the money). You can do this to, for example, spin up a new machine of a completely different operating system and, for example, test your Fabric script that pushes data to this machine. Or, similarly, you could test your Salt installations.
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>     Typically, this is done as a precursor to test/iterate in the earlier phases of the development cycle before it's necessary to spin up machines on, for example Amazon or Rackspace.
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>      So, although these tools themselves are not written in Python, we aren't configuring/modifying the tools -- we're simply using them as a black box so we can use Python tools to manipulate, deploy, etc.
> 
> Any interest?
> 
> 
> G
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