Creating and managing virtual development machines for Metacpan

We are still testing this setup...

• Check out this repo

   git clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-developer.git
  

• Setup repositories

  Make a 'metacpan' directory at the same level and check out the repositories which will be shared into the virtual machine, below we are cloning the official repositories as read only - you could of course either fork any of these, or just add your own fork as a remote to push to.

   mkdir metacpan
   cd metacpan
   git clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-puppet.git
   git clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api.git
   git clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web.git
  

• Install Vagrant (1.2.2+) and VirtualBox (4.2.12+)

    cd metacpan-developer
  

• Start the virtual machine (first run will download our .box disk image ~920MB)

    vagrant up
  

• Connect to the vm and run our puppet setup

    vagrant ssh
    sudo su -     (to become root)
  

• To edit and test

  Make changes in your checked out 'metacpan' repos and restart the service or use the run.sh script for puppet

  To install any missing (newly required) perl modules, as root run

    /home/metacpan/bin/A_SCRIPT_WE_STILL_NEED_TO_WRITE
  

  • metacpan-web is the web front end
    • mounted as /home/metacpan/metacpan.org
    • service metacpan-www restart
  • cpan-api is the backend that talks to the elasticsearch
    • mounted as /home/metacpan/api.metacpan.org
    • service metacpan-api restart
  • metacpan-puppet is the sysadmin/server setup
    • mounted as /etc/puppet
    • /etc/puppet/run.sh

• To connect to other services

  WEB: http://localhost:5001/

  API: http://localhost:5000/

  SSH: ssh -p 2222 root@localhost (password vagrant)