isabella232 / vagrant-boundary-demo

Demonstration host virtual environment

Vagrant Environment for Boundary Demo

Provides virtual machines targets for a Boundary Demo

Prerequisites

• Git 1.7 or later, here
• Vagrant 1.7.2 or later. Vagrant can be downloaded here
• VirtualBox 4.3.2.6 or later. VirtualBox can be downloaded here

Installation

Getting Started

The Boundary meter is installed on each of the virtual machines via the Boundary Puppet Module. Boundary Meter installation requires that the api token be known at install time. The Boundary API Token can be found in the Settings -> Account dialog in the Boundary user interface.

List of Platforms to Virtual Machine Mapping

The table below provides the mapping of platform to virtual machine name that is used later to start a virtual machine for testing plugins.

Role	Virtual Machine Name	Notes
Web Server #1	web-01
Web Server #2	web-02
Web Server #3	web-03
Database Server #1	db-01
Database Server #2	db-02
Monitor Server #1	monitor-01

Starting a Virtual Machine

With the Boundary API token perform the following:

1. Either checkout or clone the git repository ()[]
2. Issue the following command, the target platforms are listed in the table below:

$ BOUNDARY_API_TOKEN=<api token> vagrant up <virtual machine name>

Stopping a Virtual Machine

$ vagrant halt <virtual machine name>

Destroying a Virtual Machine

$ vagrant destroy <virtual machine name>

Plugin Installation and Configuration

Web Servers

1. Start virtual machines

$ BOUNDARY_API_TOKEN=<api token> vagrant up web-01 --provider virtualbox

2. Deploy Apache plugin on each of the web servers

Database Servers

$ BOUNDARY_API_TOKEN=<api token> vagrant up db-01 db-02 --provider virtualbox

2. Deploy MySQL plugin on each of the database servers

Monitoring Server

1. Start virtual machine

$ BOUNDARY_API_TOKEN=<api token> vagrant up monitor-01 --provider virtualbox

2. Deploy httpcheck plugin
3. Configure check of web-01
4. Configure check of web-02
5. Configure check of web-03