autotune

How to setup your VMWare Fusion images to use static IP addresses on Mac OS X

At Crush + Lovely, we use Railsmachine's Moonshine to automate the configuration of our servers. When writing our deployment recipes, VMWare Fusion's ability to take snapshots and rollback to these snapshots is a huge timesaver because it takes just seconds to roll a server image to it's original state.

When you're just configuring a single server, having a static IP address for your server image isn't too important, but when you're configuring multi-server setups, it can be useful to duplicate a number of server images and give each a static IP address so you can consistently deploy to them. While not documented well at all, it turns out that this is relatively easy to accomplish in four simple steps.

1. Determine the MAC address of your guest machine

Let's say you have a guest machine with the name ubuntu-lucid-lynx-base a

autotune

subnet 172.16.252.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        range 172.16.252.128 172.16.252.254;
        option broadcast-address 172.16.252.255;
        option domain-name-servers 172.16.252.2;
        option domain-name localdomain;
        default-lease-time 1800;                # default is 30 minutes
        max-lease-time 7200;                    # default is 2 hours
        option netbios-name-servers 172.16.252.2;
        option routers 172.16.252.2;
}

autotune

---
driver:
  name: vagrant

provisioner:
  name: chef_solo

platforms:
  - name: centos65

autotune

---
driver:
  name: rackspace
  rackspace_username: ""
  rackspace_api_key: ""
  require_chef_omnibus: "latest"
  rackspace_region: "ORD"

provisioner:
  name: "chef_solo"

autotune

autotune/centos65

autotune

source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'berkshelf'
 
group :plugins do
    gem "vagrant-berkshelf", github: "berkshelf/vagrant-berkshelf"
    gem "vagrant-omnibus", github: "schisamo/vagrant-omnibus"
end
 
gem 'test-kitchen'
gem 'kitchen-vagrant'

autotune

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Example configuration for a possible web application.  See the
# full configuration options online.
#
#   http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt
#
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Global settings

autotune

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
        "time"
	"github.com/fakovacic/amadeus"
)

func main() {

autotune

# we take the frontend hipster shop at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/blob/main/helm-chart/templates/frontend.yaml
# and demonstrate how to deploy it through helm in Argo Rollouts 

helm install sockshop ./ -nsockshop --set images.tag=v0.6.0 

helm upgrade sockshop ./ -nsockshop --set images.tag=v0.7.0 

kubectl argo rollouts get rollout frontend -nsockshop --watch

# confirm current version of site running in external elb

autotune

# we take the frontend hipster shop at https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo/blob/main/helm-chart/templates/frontend.yaml
# and demonstrate how to deploy it through helm in Argo Rollouts 

helm install sockshop ./ -nsockshop --set images.tag=v0.6.0 

helm upgrade sockshop ./ -nsockshop --set images.tag=v0.7.0 

kubectl argo rollouts get rollout frontend -nsockshop --watch

# confirm current version of site running in external elb