• As a contractor software developer I am asked from time to time to perform audit of LAMP projects. As project configuration is different, I use so-called "umbrella repository environment" which allows me to wrap such projects into reusable vagrant environment without need to amend audited projects codebase itself.

  Wrapping custom LAMP project into Vagrant with Ansible

• As a contractor - software developer, I remaster my work environment often, depending on project requirements. Depending on NDA, sometimes I work remotely on provided boxes. It is important for me to get a typical set of work tools quickly. Let me share how I get my new environment done while I am drinking coffee.

  Make Your Development Environment Ready While You Drink a Coffee

• The first step to proceed with custom provisioning - is to perform basic box securing, as in some cases you are given with freshly installed box with the root password. Let me share with you the quick recipe on initial box securing, which should be good for most web deployments.

  Prepare Your ubuntu Box for Automated Deployment

• Do I install Jenkins manually each time? Of course not, I do it often for my customers. With ansible, and sa-box-jenkins role new Jenkins installation can be deployed while you read news

  Setup & Configure Jenkins For Your Team

• Perhaps most developers are familiar with git-flow model, that makes release process controlled. In this article, I would demonstrate one of the approaches to introduce git-flow releasing in your project, capable of being integrated with continuous integration tool of your choice, like Atlassian Bamboo provided as an example.

  Implementing git-flow Releasing Model in Continuous Integration Process

• In this article I will demonstrate how I automate network creation with Ansible for the application according to project requirements, and store network creation logic alongside the project. In this way, your project infrastructure evolves and releases together with your application releases.

  Automating network mastering scenarios for Amazon VPC

• "Don’t Check Passwords into Source Control or Hard-Code Them in Your Application Operations staff will remove your eyes with a spoon if they catch you doing this. Don’t give them the pleasure Passwords should always be entered by the user performing the deployment. There are several acceptable ways to handle authentication for a multilayer system.

  Using Vault to secure your deployment secrets

• PAAS platforms increased popularity causes wider use of this approach in new projects. Last two major players on PAAS market are PAAS from Redhat called Openshift and PAAS from the Amazon Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Both PAASes are backed up by Amazon Cloud infrastructure, and support LAMP stack solutions which make them good platform for large variety of the php projects.

  Customizing environment on PAAS application containers

• The first issue I spotted, once I installed Oracle Virtual Box & Vagrant on my ESXi box, is the inability to start vagrant controlled image, due to luck of virtualization support. There were no options to turn it on via ESXi GUI client

  Enable Virtualization inside ESXi Virtual Machine

Configure language environments

• sa-node
• sa-ruby
• sa-lamp
• sa-java
• sa-go
• sa-python
• sa-node-nvm

Configure DB server for your project

• sa-mysql
• sa-mariadb
• sa-mysql-percona
• sa-postgres
• sa-mongodb
• sa-mongo-percona

Docker optimized roles

• sa-container-bootstrap
• sa-nginx-container
• sa-php-container
• sa-uwsgi-container

Docker related "universe"

• sa-docker
• sa-rkt
• sa-traefik

Featured deployment roles & scenarios

• Ansible role for bootstraping the new box for deployment

  sa-box-bootstrap

• Automated Jenkins build server deployment

  sa-box-jenkins

• Basic role to setup stable 0.10 or 0.12 node environment. Includes upstart template for node apps & meteor apps.

  sa-node

• Basic role to setup ruby with ruby-install. Also you get ch_ruby on a board - no more rbenv or rvm. Nginx with passenger is provided as an optional step. Role includes recipe to install sample ruby app from git.

  sa-ruby

• Stable Nginx with necessary config adjustments to enable apache like sites-enabled / sites-available structure.

  sa-nginx

• Installs stable mongodb from 2.6.* or 3.* channel

  sa-mongo

• Get bleeding edge microsoft asp.net 5 stack on your debian box

  sa-mono-aspnet

Ansible Galaxy Roles

• Installs apache and enables set of modules

  sa-apache

• Code editor by github, recipe includes base package install + set of plugins of your choice

  sa-atom

• Role to perform basic securing of fresh instance for further automated deploy

  sa-box-bootstrap

• Ready to use Jenkins with set of optional bundled plugins. Backup/restore on a board

  sa-box-jenkins

• installs mailhog and webmin

  sa-box-staging

• Editor from Adobe. Sometimes used as an alternative to Atom.IO, sublime or light table

  sa-brackets-io

• chrome-remote-desktop host- Chrome Remote Desktop allows you to securely access your computer over the Internet through the Chrome browser or a Chromebook

  sa-chrome-remote-desktop

GISTS

• Don't want your work go get lost on github? Really think it's impossible? Check this link: http://bit.ly/github_suspends. Secure your repos today - do regular backup.

  backup github repos

• Perform regular mongodb backup with optional artifacts copiing to AWS S3

  mongo dbbackup