Monday, May 18, 2015
This is the Vagrantfile I am using for my development box at home and work. It is determines how much ram is available and how I want to allocate, how many CPUs are available, and configures the VM for me. I use NFS for shared folders. Finally, starting to use "hostupdater" to keep my host machines hosts file current. I would love to make that more dynamic, based on the Apache vhosts I have configured in the VM.Thursday, September 25, 2014
I have been doing more web development with Vagrant and VirtualBox. It's a nice way to keep my dev environment nearly the same as my production environments. Recently I was doing some front-end coding and was running into the most bizarre errors with my JavaScript. It pays to read the documentation. Had I read it more thoroughly, I would have known about this before debugging it and wasting time. Oops!Saturday, July 12, 2014
I use Chef to manage and provision new staging and production servers in our company. It takes a lot of the headache out of managing multiple servers and allows me to fire up new web & data servers for our projects with ease. I have several cookbooks that I use to configure servers and to setup/configure websites. In a nutshell, it's rad, and website deployments have never been easier. For my local development environment I currently run Ubuntu, with Apache, Nginx, PHP 5.