Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
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Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#2I'm here to answer any questions and take feedback.
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#3Cool!
> Metamon has hitherto been an internal tool that provides a reusable set of Ansible Playbooks that help us quickly start new projects by skipping environment configuration and automation.
Having built your tool for a specific purpose means it can avoid scope creep.
I built something somewhat similar [0], but use Puppet, added a GUI and keep adding more and more features. Right now you can set up a VM with PHP, HHVM, Ruby, Python, Node.js or a mix of all these. High on my to-do list is to allow setting up Python/Ruby/Node.js apps using Apache/Nginx.
[0] - https://puphpet.com
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#4Very cool, my org uses something similar internally as well. It's been adapted for our own specific purposes but was originally based on https://github.com/jcalazan/ansible-django-stack, a similar project to yours.
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#5Not related to Metamon, but in support of it. If you are looking for intros to Vagrant, or Ansible, I have a couple screencasts on them [1, 2]. Both are amazingly awesome tools that I just cannot promote enough. Looks like these Metamon files create a virtual environment using Vagrant, then stand up an application stack, from top to bottom, using Ansible.
[1] https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/42-crash-course-on-vagran...
[2] https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/43-19-minutes-with-ansibl...
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#6Thanks for releasing it.
Was thinking about using Ansible for some time, but haven't. Now this is easy to get started.
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#7link to the actual Github repo: https://github.com/tryolabs/metamon
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#8Very nice! I have been using something similar, but mine is only for setting up a dev environment in vagrant, not deployment. I will definitely use this as a reference for when I extend my provisioning to include deployment.
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#9It's not surprising to see something like this for Django, is it? If anyone were still using Zope, there would be similar needs.
Re: Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
#10I'm here to answer any questions and take feedback.
Without a good counterindication, I'll probably end up forking this and adding VirtualEnvWrapper because I like the workflow better than plain VirtualEnv. Is there any particular reason you don't include it? Perhaps the deployment automation mostly moots the VirtualEnvWrapper wins, making it not worth the increased complexity?
P.S. This is a very timely release for me. I've done a few manual deploys of almost this exact stack, and have a major project for my company that I need to port to Django. However, I wanted to learn and use Ansible before attacking the job to lower maintenance costs. This looks like it will be a tremendous leg up on that task.