Notes from our BOF discussion about Drupal + Chef + Vagrant.

Vagrant-BOF-drupalcampNJ.md

BOF followup to https://gist.github.com/4698240

Present:

jonathan pugh steve merrill david king dkingofpa alex dergachev

and other cool people

https://github.com/xforty/xforty-drupal

drush make https://github.com/xforty/drush-deploy, (based on capistrano) for prod deployment:

• settings file / folder mgmt with symlink
• version the database
• drush make workflow, features referenced in make files
• drush sql-sync, rsync

steve merrill

• http://treehouseagency.com/blog/steven-merrill/2011/11/17/vagrant-and-nfs (symlink nfs problem)
• http://drupal.org/project/drush-vagrant
  • "vagrant ssh" to "drush alias"

project ariadne (patcon)

• david: wanted

ssh agent forwarding challenge

• SteveM: our jenkins has java SSH agent stack...
• Alex: see cookbook root_ssh_agent for our problems
  • SteveM: quick workaround: use a shell provisioner first to fix this!
    • AlexD: we should do this as a post-provisioner for end-users to plug in their custom shell script
    • Also would be good to have a prompt plugin
• DavidK: similar problem with ssh_known_host null issue
• vagrant hostmaster
  • plugin manages /etc/hosts for vagrants
  • https://github.com/mosaicxm/vagrant-hostmaster
  • DavidK: use avahi/zeroconf hostname.local
    • xforty/vagrant-drupal#59 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software)

Getting started with drupal/vagrant

• https://github.com/msonnabaum/drupalcon-training-chef-repo

https://github.com/zivtech/vagrant-development-vm https://github.com/zivtech/getSite

• have some db sync scripts
• SteveM: ubuntu provides some vagrant images, Centos getting too
• Alex: even nfs shared folders are too slow, my cookbook just copies to regular folder or does git clone
  • SteveM: consider sshfs or webdav, though not a solution to the problem