Development environment has been plaguing us for a while in my product development department. From dependencies hell to complex setup in operations, our development environment has gone through the usual gauntlet of pains and complaints.
This has changed with Vagrant. It is the single tool that gels the devs with the ops; quintessential devop tool if you will. Not only Vagrant has helped eliminate the “works on my machine” bugs, we use it for automated integration tests. In addition, this one tool has made our development environment setup quick and simple for our HCI guys too.
We do a lot of integration work with Varnish Cache and I thought I would take this opportunity to share this simple Vagrantfile, as an example, to help get started with installing varnish and libdigest-vmod from source.
Note that the provisioning process is rather crude in this example. Rather, the intention here is to out outline the steps required to get varnish and vmods installed and running via Vagrant. For production and future maintainability, do use Chef or Puppet as it can be seamlessly integrated within the Vagrantfile.
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.define :varnish do |varnish|
varnish.vm.box = "varnish"
varnish.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
$script_varnish = <<SCRIPT
echo Installing dependencies, curl
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl -y
sudo apt-get install git -y
curl http://repo.varnish-cache.org/debian/GPG-key.txt | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb http://repo.varnish-cache.org/ubuntu/ precise varnish-3.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://repo.varnish-cache.org/ubuntu/ precise varnish-3.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
echo ==== Compiling and installing Varnish from source ====
sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
sudo apt-get build-dep varnish -y
apt-get source varnish
cd varnish-3.0.4
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
echo done
echo ==== Compiling and installing lib-digest vmod from source ===
git clone https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-digest.git
sudo apt-get install libmhash-dev libmhash2 -y
cd libvmod-digest
./autogen.sh
./configure VARNISHSRC=/home/vagrant/varnish-3.0.4 VMODDIR=/usr/local/lib/varnish/vmods
sudo make install
cd ..
echo ===== done ====
echo ===== firing up varnish via commandline ====
sudo varnishd -a :80 -T :6081 -f /vagrant/test.vcl
touch varnish_vm
SCRIPT
varnish.vm.provision :shell, :inline => $script_varnish
end
end
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