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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Environment/Setup</span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>OS - Windows 10 </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Env Variables
- </span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>C:\Program
Files\Git\usr\bin</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>C:\Program
Files\Oracle\VirtualBox</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>The following
cost a few hours, and some hair. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>For Windows
user’s : Enable hardware virtualization on your host, it's one of the few
listed options in the BIOS. </span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Turn off Hyper
V, this messes with virtualbox and VMware tools. </span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Step 1 </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Install Virtualbox
- Version - VirtualBox 5.1.12 platform packages.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>URL :
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Step 2 </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Install Vagrant -
Version - 1.9.1</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>URL :
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Step 3</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>We want ssh,
without messing around with OpenSSH or anything with big words like marmalade. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Install Git for
windows - Version - 2.11.0</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>URL :
https://git-scm.com/download/win</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Step 4 </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Run vagrant box
add - with the following options - puppetlabs/ubuntu-14.04-64-nocm</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-14.04-64-nocm</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Step 5 </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Run vagrant up</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Spec comments. </span><br>
<br>
The solution should contain a Vagrantfile, all associated configuration
management files, and a README that lists both the steps we should run to
duplicate your solution and any assumed software version(s).</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'><a href="https://github.com/BenCoughlan15/automationlogic">https://github.com/BenCoughlan15/automationlogic</a></span></pre>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
107%;color:black'><br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span
class=SubtitleChar><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span
class=SubtitleChar><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>The solution
should only require vagrant installed on the host machine with all additional
software installed on the virtual machines.</span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span class=SubtitleChar><span style='font-family:
"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’m using git to pull down the repo, and using the ssh binary in there, so I don’t need to mess with the fresh hell of configuring ssh on Windows. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span
style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>I’ve also installed Virtualbox, and Vagrant. (see above).</span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br>
· Create a Vagrantfile that creates a single machine using this box:<a
href="https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-14.04-64-nocm"
target="_blank"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://vagrantcloud.com/puppetlabs/boxes/ubuntu-14.04-64-nocm</span></a><br>
and installs the latest released version of your chosen configuration
management tool.</p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>see above. </span></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-family:
"Garamond",serif'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Install the nginx
webserver via configuration management.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Ansible installs this, as part of its playbook. </span></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><br>
· Run a simple test using Vagrant's shell provisioner to ensure that nginx is
listening on port 80</p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Emphasis on simple…. The last command of the Vagrantfile should show you the network settings. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>This is pretty nasty, I’d have Nagios do this in future. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><img border=0
width=602 height=29 id="Picture 1" src="README_files/image001.jpg"></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><br>
· Again, using configuration management, update contents of /etc/sudoers file
so that Vagrant user can sudo without a password and that anyone in the admin
group can sudo with a password.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Provision.sh runs from vagrant to do this substitution, it remains idemponent by checking for fields before executing the command, in hindsight I’d bomb much of it into ansible. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span
style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>To test this, run </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:#333333'>vagrant ssh -c &quot;sudo grep 'admin\|vagrant' /etc/sudoers&quot; loadbalancer</span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><br>
· Make the solution idempotent so that re-running the provisioning step will
not restart nginx unless changes have been made</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>See above : ansible also does this by default. </span></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>7.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><br>
· Create a simple &quot;Hello World&quot; web application in your favourite
language of choice.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Go to 10.0.15.11 for the site. </span></pre><pre style='background:
#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Each application host is also available via their respective ip’s for your convenience. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span
style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Not overly chuffed with this, I had grand plans to have it connect to a web server populate a database full of 1990’s spinning gif’s, but I’m out of time, so..  </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><img border=0
width=137 height=81 id="Picture 2" src="README_files/image002.jpg"> <img
border=0 width=152 height=82 id="Picture 3" src="README_files/image003.jpg"></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'>&nbsp;</pre>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>8.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><br>
· Ensure your web application is available via the nginx instance.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>As I’m using haproxy to balance these, I may have made a mistake here, you can certainly access these application hosts independently, but the loadbalancer uses haproxy to manage the nginx services, re-reading this, I feel like an idiot, so I’m going to  be a coward and blame the oversight on time constraints. </span></pre>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>9.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br>
Extend the Vagrantfile to deploy this webapp to two additional vagrant machines
and then configure the nginx to load balance between them.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>See Vagrantfile</span></pre>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:
9.5pt;line-height:107%;color:#222222'>10.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><br>
· Test (in an automated fashion) that both app servers are working, and that
the nginx is serving the content correctly.</p>

<pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Vagrant does this on provision with connectiontest.sh. </span></pre><pre
style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></pre><pre style='background:#F7F7F7'><span
style='font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black'>Again, I’d have configured Nagios..</span></pre>

<p class=MsoSubtitle><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'>11.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><br>
I’m interested in your working as much as your answers, so where you make a
decision to go one way rather than another, please explain your thinking.<br>
Your solution will be assessed on code quality and comprehensibility, not just
on technical correctness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<h2><span style='font-family:"Garamond",serif'>Things I’d change : </span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’d have given myself more time, I’ve had a few major releases in
work this week so have been working around the clock, and haven’t had a lot of
time to do this exercise. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’d have made the necessary connection settings to allow the
application servers to connect to the DB on the loadbalancer.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’d pull and display data from the DB, and interact with a
webserver, probably using something lightweight like json. </span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’d have done all of this from a linux machine, rather than this
stock windows laptop, although I have to say, Window’s have vastly improved
their Command Prompt. </span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>Changed the DNS settings to give it a proper hostname. </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:
normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:black'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'>I’d have used salt/chef/puppet or any other configuration tool out
there. However, there are tonnes of examples of this exercise across the web
that do this task with those tools. I wanted to learn from this experience,
rather than to replicate somebody else’s work, so I have gone with Ansible.</span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:#222222'>&nbsp;</span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:#222222'>&nbsp;</span></p>

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normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;
color:black'><br>
Optional Extra credit:<br>
· Have the webapp be dynamic - e.g. perform a db query for inclusion in the
response (such as picking a random quote from a database) or calling an API of
your choice(e.g. weather).<br>
=&gt; Any additional resources (e.g. a shared db server) should be set up by
the Vagrant file <br>
· Include a section for possible improvements and compromises made during the
development of your solution<br>
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