On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:21:20 AM John Eckersberg wrote: > I keep coming back to using puppet to handle the dev setup the more I > think about it. Granted, I am probably biased, having used it for at > least a man-year for better or worse :) > > Here's what I think we need to be able to do: > > 1. Install required dependencies in a platform-agnostic manner. Puppet > can do this (yum for rpm-based, apt for deb-based, > whatever-the-heck-mac-os-uses works too) > > 2. Clone dev-sources from upstream source (conductor, imagefactory, > deltacloud, audrey, configure?) > > 3. Drop any needed config files into the cloned source repos > > 4. Ad-hoc things to run (db:migrate, etc.) > > 5. Start services from source checkout > > That's at a high level. The reason I really tend towards puppet is > because in the details, there's a whole boatload of things that are > inter-dependent on each other and need to happen in some sort of > ordering, but at the same time need to be platform-agnostic. Puppet is > good at this. Other tools will be a bear to make functional across > platforms and make sure all the dependencies are wired up properly. > > Maybe I'm in an optimistic mood, but I think a first pass at this is > attainable within a single sprint.
+1 for this approach. Can you share? I would like to use it... Really... -- With regards Petr Blaho
