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syphon posted:The idea is to treat all of your configs as code (which basically means put them in source control and run them through whatever "build/deploy/test" processes are applicable). There are various "Configuration Management" tools (chef, puppet, ansible, salt) that support and encourage these practices. I've been using Chef for a while now, and after you get past the learning curve it's really good. It's just a lot to take in at once... you have half a dozen command line tools, 3 available provisioners, cookbooks, recipes, attributes, environments, roles, nodes, files, templates, resources, LWRPs, etc. etc. etc. Can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you don't know Ruby either. But, once you get into it, learn some of the best practices, write a couple cookbooks, and frequent the IRC channel you're set. I'm helping the company I work at now design and implement webapp servers (LNMP stack mainly) managed by Chef, to begin the process of migrating from hand-managed servers to config-VCS-tested bliss. It's also a GREAT way to segway into contributing to open source, since everything Chef is on GitHub. I'm even using it for side projects because, in concert with Vagrant, it makes setting up a local development instance easy as cake when you need it to match existing production servers.
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Pollyanna posted:I've taken it upon myself to create a VM for our Rails project, because our current config setup and new engineer onboarding is a mess... I basically did exactly this at my current job for a CentOS/PHP/Magento/Percona VM, except we use Packer to build out versioned boxes (provisioned with Chef recipes and some cleanup shell scripts) because the initial Chef learning curve is pretty high and people are lazy. We eventually want to get Docker involved to build out layers which we can apply to CI environments in the future... but I haven't even looked at docker yet. Chef has a nice IRC channel where lots of devs hang out, trust me you'll end up needing it.
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