[chef] Deploy production servers with vagrant

[Vladimir Skubriev < >]

In our workflow we using lxc containers to run service that setuped by chef-client

How I can automate deploys without vagrant?

Bash scripting, ruby scripting or manual?
 
Manual: lxc-create, lxc-start, ssh, some preparations, install chef, bootstrap, run chef-client, enable auto run container

I already has a some simple script to automate this. But I think this is a wrong way, because Vagrant exists.


Vagrant has lxc plugin, but then vagrant must be installed and run on that host server. (Is I'm right?)

Is this a good work flow (vagrant installed in home of serveradmin user) ?

I suppose this use case:

1. I has a application cookbook with true Vagrantfile for using with lxc-provider
2. I will create a cookbook to run on host server to install vagrant.
3. I will clone needed application repos to srvadm home's
4. cd to application repo root and run vagrant up

What's next?

Where information will be stored on this machine?

How I can understand vagrant will creating container and then star it.

Where vagrant is store information about running machines and how it corresponds to my work flow ?

If I want to remove it, I'll command 'vagrant destroy' and container will be deleted.

Suppose I has a different one application coobook named application2 (I suppose that I will use only container for one application cookbook)

I must cd to another application repo root dir and command `vagrant up` ?

And what will happen to the last virtual machine? It's continue to work ?

Anybody uses vagrant for production in this use case ?

What additional settings in Vagrantfile you are using when setting up a production servers (Not necessarily lxc, of course). Maybe setup ssh keys, which is storing in the same git application repo?

Which additional setting can be stored in application cookbook repository ?

Additional I have a small question about lxc vagrant plugin:

How I can override bridge name, if I want to use plugin installed with command ` vagrant plugin install lxc` instead of cloning source version and fix this manually ?

Thank you very much.

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Best regards,

CVision Lab System Administrator
Vladmir Skubriev