1. Manage VM's like a pro

2. ???

3. PROFIT!

Hi, I'm Paul Finn

I'm a web developer at Heartland Payment Systems.

(Fortune 1000; credit card processing & payroll)

Too many things on Github to try...

RAM is cheap!

...but most importantly...

You need to get Apache 2.0.5--prefork working with PHP 4.8.1 for a client you had 7 years ago and the ORM only works with MySQL 4 but not the 4.1 driver, that causes problems with CentOS 5.1 so be sure you "yum update gcc-config" because if you don't you'll never get PDO working without that crazy PERL extension that you found that one time on Sourceforge.

THAT'S JUST NUTS.

I mean, c'mon. 

Sourceforge??

Open source software for creating and managing VMs.

For developers. 

"A wrapper around VirtualBox"

Because you wish you could commit a VM to a repo.

Because you work on a team

(or you manage a team)

Because you KNOW your local machine LAMP/Rails/Django stack looks nothing like your production environment. 

Disposable.

Consistent.

Scriptable.

Commit-able.

Dependable.

Download Vagrant

(prereq: VirtualBox/VMWare)

3 Easy Steps:

Synced Folders between host and guest

Easily configure networking & port forwarding

Provisioning. Provisioning. Provisioning.

How? Each VM has a Vagrantfile

Ruby, but you don't have to know Ruby

"What's my base box and how do I configure it?"

All the network and provisioning information tucked inside.

Automatically run your setup scripts (provisioning) when you fire up your VM. 

Configure in your Vagrantfile

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, bash scripts, etc.

Demo! Apache on :4567 in four lines of shell script

Oh, the potential!

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/

https://github.com/search?q=vagrant

pvfinn@gmail.com