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The Top 5 DevOps Dashboards Every Engineer Should Consider

Using Vagrant for Continuos Integration

Whoever has used Puppet on production servers has probably lived, at least once, the uncomfortable situation when a change on Puppet manifests has introduced "unwanted effects" on target nodes if not real failures.

... things can be put right with Vagrant, a tool to create and distribute virtualized environments and Puppet, a tool which helps you with your configuration management. This article will illustrate their use with an example of how to construct a simple Java web application stack.

I'm going to assume you've got a Puppet module already on GitHub. To save messing around with bundler on your local machine, I recommend installing puppet-lint and rspec-puppet as system gems while you're getting this all set up.