[clue] Matt's talk.

[Sean Leblanc]

Ah, too bad I missed that. I've been exploring Puppet and probably should have gone to that. Any slide deck or anything of that nature?

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On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:16 PM, "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> We had a really good meeting on Tuesday.  About 15 people or so showed up--pretty good turnout, 
> thanks everyone, especially Matt for a nice talk and Chris for hosting!
> 
> Matt showed us how to set up VMs with Proxmox.  Proxmox installs on bare metal and it's point and 
> click from there.  IIRC we used a Centos machine and two Ubuntu machines.
> 
> The majority of the talk focused on Puppet.  The Centos machine was the puppet master.  It got 
> puppet installed and all the config.  The two puppet clients got puppet installed and certs created 
> to "assimilate" them.
> 
> The config was designed to set up the two clients as a MySQL server and an Apache/Wordpress server.
> 
> Obviously for the sake of time we didn't do everything Puppet can do.  Nonetheless it handled the 
> server software installation (and in a cross-platform way so the recipes would work on either 
> distro).  Rather than installing Wordpress from a native package it was installed from the upstream 
> tar ball.  Native packages have some advantages but this was a nice demonstration of Puppet's 
> flexibility and ease of use.
> 
> Puppet also handled configuring MySQL for Wordpress and hooking Wordpress into MySQL (you could do 
> the same approach with custom shell scripts but Puppet makes it simpler and easier).
> 
> In the end we had a working Wordpress to use and there were enough questions that we were late for 
> happy hour (ends at 9).
> 
> After the meeting we went to the On the Rocks sports bar just across Lincoln from the McAfee 
> building.  A bit loud and I don't know about wifi but quite acceptable.  I think we'll continue to 
> use it until someone comes with a strong recommendation for somewhere else.
> 
> Thanks again to everyone who made this happen.  We'll see you in July!
> 
> Dave
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