[Baypiggies] Volunteer for new talk (if there is interest): Vagrant

[Bryce Verdier]

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On Jan 27, 2013 11:42 AM, "Glen Jarvis" <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

> Although I said in the last meeting that I may discuss RabbitMQ, I think
> that's too early for me (even with the 4 months lag time). However, we seem
> to have a theme right now and I am learning something that fits right in
> that theme.
>
> December: Virtualization (and how to start AWS instances just from Python
> Code)
> January: Fabric (How do you manage all of those virtual machines that you
> just started)
> February: (already booked up) (Possibly a talk on salt if the original
> designated author doesn't mind moving his time slot and salt author can be
> arranged)
> March: (already booked up)
> April: <== I can take this one
>
> Tony,
>     If you have no takers (and we get enough +1s to merit the talk), I can
> shoot for April (or another slot if you have other takers for April).
>
>
> All,
>     Vagrant is a tool that is *NOT* written in Python (It's written in
> Ruby). It's nothing but a way of making VirtualBox (and instances created
> within VirtualBox) controllable by the command line. (VirtualBox also not
> written in Python).
>
>     However, this gives us leverage to use Python tools on virtual
> machines locally.What this gives you is a way of testing virtual machines
> without having to use Amazon's AWS (and without paying the money). You can
> do this to, for example, spin up a new machine of a completely different
> operating system and, for example, test your Fabric script that pushes data
> to this machine. Or, similarly, you could test your Salt installations.
>
>     Typically, this is done as a precursor to test/iterate in the earlier
> phases of the development cycle before it's necessary to spin up machines
> on, for example Amazon or Rackspace.
>
>      So, although these tools themselves are not written in Python, we
> aren't configuring/modifying the tools -- we're simply using them as a
> black box so we can use Python tools to manipulate, deploy, etc.
>
> Any interest?
>
>
> G
> --
>
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