vagrant talk discussion

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Your talk looks like it could be perfect. I think it gets boring when all talks at a X meetup are about exactly X. And tools are awesome. Especially awesome tools like vagrant. I don't know who would say "Hey, this isn't about Javascript, WTF?!"

I was actually planning on using mongo or http://rethinkdb.com/ in my demo

Yeah, I think 15 mins. are to short for both theory and a demo. What I could do is: Cut the theory by a few minutes, then do a demo with vagrant init, vagrant up and vagrant ssh.
From their you could take over, showing a more complex setup with provisioning going on, distributed systems or whatever you like. I'd love to see distribution especially as I only work with one box at a time and never tried setting up a more complex system.

that sounds great.
FYI, I was going to use http://www.ansible.com/home to provision the boxes.
Maybe I will spend a couple minutes of my demo with an intro to that.
Or maybe we need a third person to do an ansible talk :P

Ansible is great, but I don't use it for vagrant. I like it for setup of cloud machines because I don't need anything than my local ansible to get startet (Actually, I had a vagrant box with ansible installed and the playbooks to set up my boxes at hetzner and Digital Ocean). With chef, I'd need a server or get the cookbooks in there or whatever.

For vagrant, I use chef as it combines easy setup for most things and the possibility to do even the most complex things without workarounds.

I moved from chef to ansible because ansible just feels right to me. Lots of ceremony with chef (and chef server - yikes!) way more features than I need for one to a few servers.
I also don't like to have vagrant provision for me because their provisioning API was another level of confusion between me and chef.
I will send you a link when i have my repo up so you can see what I mean. The only thing I miss in ansible is a way to specify a non-standard ssh-config file. Being able to keep my ssh config in my ansible repo would be awesome.