The Setup: Managing an Army of Laptops
summary
GitHub’s The Setup (boxing) claims a one-command dev environment by delivering a Ruby wrapper around Puppet-driven idempotent runs plus ~90 shared puppet modules, a project manifest format, and per-user manifests. It ships patched Homebrew and RVM so many dependencies install as precompiled Homebrew/RVM binaries, runs a CI job that clones ~500 repos and finishes in ~42 minutes, and posts detailed failure issues to GitHub automatically. The web installer runs as boxing web on Heroku and the project already shows ~124 pull requests and ~230 issues.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:12philosophy on how your machine should be configured
- 2:37Want to know how GitHub tested ruby 1.9.3 in development?
- 9:45Puppet is a configuration management tool
- 14:47Metaparameters
- 15:06Puppet is Declarative
- 16:00Bundler for Puppet
- 16:58COMMAND LINE TOOL
- 17:18PROJECT MANIFESTS
- 18:50PERSONAL MANIFESTS
- 21:22GitHub Issues API
- 21:56AUTO - UPDATE
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