[Cialug] LAMP/installers/distros

[Adam Hill]

Todd,

If you're just talking just one box and all of this sounds like Greek then
just google their distro + LAMP and use a guide that leverages the OS's
package manager (Like the one David sent).  Keep it simple until scale or
complexity require your solution evolve.

Learning configuration management is valuable but if you're learning
something new and want a simple portable LAMP environment I'd highly
recommend looking at Docker in addition to the CM options everyone
presented (They even play friendly together).  Docker does have a minimum
kernel version requirement so it might be ruled out by your customers
distro.

RE: CM discussion

Like Jeff said, puppet can easily run in agent only mode (puppet apply
manifest.pp).  The main features that gets left behind when running without
a master are shared puppet modules and puppetdb.

Puppet has large scale enterprise experience, backing, and support under
its belt but I've gathered reading that Ansible is probably bring better
for small scale usage and new users to CM.  The puppet learning curve can
be steep.  I still need to get around to trying Ansible in a project so I
can properly compare it to puppet.  Chef/Salt buzz is waning as far as I
can tell.