[clue] Matt's talk.

[David L. Willson]

Excellent write-up and a great demo. I missed that Wordpress was being installed from a tarball.

Is Matt on here? Can I get a copy of that module? Our Puppet setup is strictly packages from the repo's.

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David L. Willson
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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.

----- Original Message -----
> 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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