README.md

infra-example-nginx

Companion repository for my blog post series Infra as a Repo.

In its current incarnation, this example provisions two servers: one salt master (salt) and one minion that will run Nginx (nginx01). These servers can be run locally on VirtualBox, or on Digital Ocean Droplets.

Requirements

• Install Virtual Box
• Install Vagrant
• Install vagrant-hostmanager: vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
• Install vagrant-digitalocean: vagrant plugin install vagrant-digitalocean
• Install salty-vagrant as described below

If you want to deploy to Digital Ocean, you will need an account well.

Installing Salty-Vagrant

The latest official vagrant-salt-plugin release is somewhat outdated. To use this example, you will need to take the following steps:

1. Check out salty-vagrant
2. Apply Pull Request #98
3. Install the plugin following the "Install from source" instructions.

Running local servers

Run vagrant up to create two virtualbox images. This will download a minimal Debian Wheezy 7.0 image from my dropbox account and spin up two images:

• salt -- a VM containing nothing but a Salt master
• nginx01 -- a VM containing a Salt minion, which installs an Nginx server

If you want easy access to these machines, add the following lines to your /etc/hosts file:

10.1.14.100	nginx01.intranet
10.1.14.50	salt.intranet

Create servers on Digital Ocean

Copy the Vagrant.local.example to ~/.vagrant.d/ and enter your Digital Ocean API key.

Run vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean to provision both servers at Digital Ocean. Run vagrant rebuild to recreate these server.

By default, the servers are the cheapest Droplets, hosted in NYC.