VIP Workshop VM

Hey, welcome to the VIP Workshop Virtual Machine.

Purpose

The goal of this VM is to simplify and standardize the setup across all attendees and speakers.

No more last-minute permissions debugging or people, who didn't bother to install web server, MySQL, memcached and a several more pieces of software needed for the presentations.

Vagrant

This VM is maintained using Vagrant. vagrant is a tool, which helps create, configure, and replicate virtual machines.

How to Install

0. Install Vagrant, preferably the latest 1.5 version. Less than 1.1 will not work.
1. Install VirtualBox.
2. Check out https://github.com/2b6047ed4228114a60cd5176d8eb0053748ef00/vip-workshop-vm
3. Run vagrant up.
4. Wait :-)
5. Map 10.86.73.81 to vip-workshop.dev in your hosts file or in your local DNS server.
6. You can now open http://vip-workshop.dev/ or run vagrant ssh

How Does It Work

Every time the VM is provisioned (on boot or vagrant reload, not on vagrant resume), we run Puppet. It installs or updates the neededs software, copies files to their right places, restarts the services with the proper configs.

Conventions

• Use http://vip-workshop.dev/talk-slug as the URL of your demo sites
• Whenever you need to choose a username and a password, choose wordpress/wordpress.

Host Directory Structure

.
├── puppet
│
├── talks – holds all the talk files, synced to ~/.talks on the VM.
│   └── talk-slug
│
└── www – holds the web interface for http://vip-workshop.dev/ – talks listing,
     source file highlighting service. Synced to ~/www on the VM.