Blog posts tagged with 'puppet':



Using vagrant and puppet to setup your symfony2 environment

Date: 29 Jun 2012
Tags: [ puppet ]  [ symfony2 ]  [ vagrant

As you may now by now, I’m a big fan of using Puppet for configuration management. Since the rise of virtualization, these applications are becoming one of the more dominant tools in a developers tool chain. Together with other tools, setting up a complete development environment with just a single command is not only reality, but it’s becoming for a lot of developers a daily practice. But even for open source projects like and are seeing the benefits of  having "development environment on the fly". New contributors don't have to spend a lot of time setting up their environment, but it's automatically generated: the code setup, the database server together with a filled set of data, any additional components like varnish, memcache, reddis etc. This blog post gives an overview on how to setup a symfony2 project with the help of vagrant and puppet.

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Book review: Pro Puppet

Date: 22 Sep 2011
Tags: [ book review ]  [ puppet

If you have read the book “Pulling strings with puppet”, a lot of this book might sound familiar to you already. Not really a strange thing since it’s from the same author. But because the book was written in 2007, a new update was in order and the new Pro Puppet book they’ve release so much more than an update: it’s a complete reference for beginning to the most expert puppeteers.

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