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by developer2 3457 days ago
Oh great, you've just added Terraform[1] to my list of possible tie-in softwares. Thanks for that, you monster. /s

Yes, at least for development, setting up the entire environment must be a one-command execution. Every new developer to a team will obviously need to progressively learn the entire stack, but they should be up and running after a single VCS checkout and installation command.

I expect staging and production to be a perfect replica of the same environment developers use. As to how realistic it is to "launch the entire production cluster with a single command", with remote server provisioning, IP allocations, multiple hosts for various load-balanced pools, etc... I'll have to see when that time comes.

[1] https://www.terraform.io/
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JBerlinsky 3457 days ago
You're welcome ;)

Terraform is designed for something close to one-command execution. You're going to have to swap in variables (e.g. AWS access keys for a particular account, domain names, IP addresses, etc.), but Terraform is designed for that. I would advise looking into Terraform Modules[0], which encapsulate this kind of work nicely.

[0]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/modules/create.html

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golovast 3457 days ago
You might take a look at troposphere[1] too. I've used both extensively and each definitely has it's strengths. In some cases troposphere is a better fit.

[1] https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere

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