1. Symfony development with
Vagrant and Ansible
Symfony User Group Belgium Meetup - http://symfonians.be
January 2014

2. Me, myself and I
Jean-Christophe Cuvelier
Partner @ Morris & Chapman Belgium
Founder @ Pictawall.com
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Web entrepreneur
Begun with a Commodore 64
Creative PHP developer
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be.linkedin.com/in/totophe
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github.com/totophe
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@totophe

3. Vagrant
“Vagrant provides easy to
configure, reproducible, and
portable work environments built
on top of industry-standard
technology and controlled by a
single consistent workflow to help
maximize the productivity and
flexibility of you and your team.”
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Basically, Vagrant is a nice way to
create virtual machines on the fly,
and distribute a common
configuration across multiple
developers to avoid the “But it
work on my machine” famous
quote.

4. Getting started with Vagrant
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vagrant init mymachine http://files.vagrantup.com/
precise64.box
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vagrant up
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Vagrantfile
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vagrant halt
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vagrant destroy

5. Some Vagrantfile recipes
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Forwarding a local port:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 81
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Adding a dedicated private ip:
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: “192.168.100.100"
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Provisioning with a shell script:
config.vm.provision :shell, :path => “db.sh"
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Changing the memory for the virtual machine
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
end

6. Ansible
“Ansible is the simplest way to
automate.”
Ansible is a provisioning system
that allows you to create
recipes to build a specific
environment and to replicate it
on as many machines as you
want. It allows you to build a
very specific version of a
system and to ensure that this
configuration works with your
project.

7. Getting started with Ansible
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hosts file
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ansible all -m ping -i hosts
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ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts
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ansible folder structure with tasks & templates using
Yaml and Jinja2 (very similar to Twig*)
* Obviously, Twig is based on Jinja2

8. Ansible with Vagrant
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
ansible.playbook = "provisioning/playbook.yml"
ansible.extra_vars = {private_interface: "192.168.100.1"}
end

9. Ansible with Vagrant and
Symfony

10. Symfony with Vagrant and
Ansible
https://github.com/symfonians/symfony-vagrant-ansible
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git clone https://github.com/symfonians/symfony-vagrant-ansible.git
vagrant up

11. Thank you!
jcc@pictawall.com - @totophe
be.linkedin.com/in/totophe - github.com/totophe
http://www.meetup.com/Symfony-User-Group-Belgium/