CCHits was recently asked to move it’s media to another host, and while we were doing that we noticed that many of the Monthly shows were broken in one way or another…
Cue a massive rebuild attempt!
We already have a “ShowRunner” script, which we use with a simple Vagrant machine, and I knew you can use other hypervisor “providers”, and I used to use AWS to build the shows, so why not wrap the two parts together?
Firstly, I installed the vagrant-aws plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
Next I amended my Vagrantfile with the vagrant-aws values mentioned in the plugin readme:
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.provider :aws do |aws, override|
config.vm.box = "ShowMaker"
aws.tags = { 'Name' => 'ShowMaker' }
config.vm.box_url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-aws/raw/master/dummy.box"
# AWS Credentials:
aws.access_key_id = "DECAFBADDECAFBADDECAF"
aws.secret_access_key = "DeadBeef1234567890+AbcdeFghijKlmnopqrstu"
aws.keypair_name = "TheNameOfYourSSHKeyInTheEC2ManagementPortal"
# AWS Location:
aws.region = "us-east-1"
aws.region_config "us-east-1", :ami => "ami-c29e1cb8" # If you pick another region, use the relevant AMI for that region
aws.instance_type = "t2.micro" # Scale accordingly
aws.security_groups = [ "sg-1234567" ] # Note this *MUST* be an SG ID not the name
aws.subnet_id = "subnet-decafbad" # Pick one subnet from https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home
# AWS Storage:
aws.block_device_mapping = [{
'DeviceName' => "/dev/sda1",
'Ebs.VolumeSize' => 8, # Size in GB
'Ebs.DeleteOnTermination' => true,
'Ebs.VolumeType' => "GP2", # General performance - you might want something faster
}]
# SSH:
override.ssh.username = "ubuntu"
override.ssh.private_key_path = "/home/youruser/.ssh/id_rsa" # or the SSH key you've generated
# /vagrant directory - thanks to https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/5401
override.nfs.functional = false # It tries to use NFS - use RSYNC instead
end
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./run_setup.sh"
config.vm.provision "shell", run: "always", path: "./run_showmaker.sh"
end
Of course, if you try to put this into your Github repo, it’s going to get pillaged and you’ll be spending lots of money on monero mining very quickly… so instead, I spotted this which you can do to separate out your credentials:
At the top of the Vagrantfile, add these two lines:
require_relative 'settings_aws.rb'
include SettingsAws
Then, replace the lines where you specify a “secret”, like this:
aws.access_key_id = AWS_ACCESS_KEY
aws.secret_access_key = AWS_SECRET_KEY
Lastly, create a file “settings_aws.rb” in the same path as your Vagrantfile, that looks like this:
module SettingsAws
AWS_ACCESS_KEY = "DECAFBADDECAFBADDECAF"
AWS_SECRET_KEY = "DeadBeef1234567890+AbcdeFghijKlmnopqrstu"
end
This file then can be omitted from your git repository using a .gitignore file.
