Added optional local apt cache

README.md

@@ -26,20 +26,7 @@ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
 gem install berkshelf  or gem install --http-proxy <http://some-proxy.foo.com:8088> berkshelf
 ```
 
-## Start mini-mon
-Berkshelf will download some cookbooks from the community so http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables must be set if applicable.
-From within the `mini-mon` directory, to start all the vms run:
-```
-bin/vup
-```
-The standard vagrant commands can also be used, the vup script just starts things up in a dependency order using parallel startup.
-
-## Halt mini-mon
-In some cases halting mini-mon can result in certain vms being left in an odd state, to avoid this a script has been made to halt boxes in the 
-correct order
-```
-bin/vhalt
-```
+# Using mini-mon
 
 - Your home dir is synced to `/vagrant_home` on each vm
 - Vms created
@@ -55,6 +42,20 @@ bin/vhalt
 - Can also run `ssh vagrant@<ip address>` to login 
   - password is `vagrant`
   
+## Start mini-mon
+Berkshelf will download some cookbooks from the community so http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables must be set if applicable.
+From within the `mini-mon` directory, to start all the vms run:
+```
+bin/vup
+```
+The standard vagrant commands can also be used, the vup script just starts things up in a dependency order using parallel startup.
+
+## Halt mini-mon
+In some cases halting mini-mon can result in certain vms being left in an odd state, to avoid this a script has been made to halt boxes in the 
+correct order
+```
+bin/vhalt
+```
 
 ## Updating a VM
 When someone updates the config for a vm this process should allow you to bring up an updated vm.
@@ -62,3 +63,14 @@ When someone updates the config for a vm this process should allow you to bring
 - `berks update`
 - `vagrant destroy vm` - Where vm is the name of the vm being updated, for example 'vertica'
 - `vagrant up vm`
+
+## Improving Provisioning Speed
+The slowest part of the provisioning process is the downloading of deb packages. To speed this up a local apt-cache-ng can be used.
+To install on a mac
+```
+brew install apt-cache-ng
+```
+Run `apt-cache-ng -c /usr/local/etc/apt-cacher-ng/` or optionaly follow the instructions from brew to start up the cache automatically.
+That is all that is needed from now on the cache will be used.
+
+A report from the cache is found at http://localhost:3142/acng-report.html

metadata.rb

@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ maintainer_email "hpcs-mon@hp.com"
 license          "All rights reserved"
 description      "Base setup for all vagrant boxes"
 long_description IO.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'README.md'))
-version          "0.0.1"
+version          "0.0.2"
 depends          "apt"

recipes/default.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Common setup for all vagrant boxes
 
-
 ## Todo - This apt setup is specific to HP Cloud and should be moved to an optional recipe.
 
 # This move the default apt sources which are the standard ubuntu apt ones aside, so we are forced to deal with what hpcloud has mirrored
@@ -33,3 +32,24 @@ apt_repository 'dev' do
   components ['release']
   key 'http://packages.dev.uswest.hpcloud.net/cloud/som/developer/hpcs.gpg'
 end
+
+# Look for a local apt cache
+rb = ruby_block "Check for local apt cache" do
+  action :nothing
+  block do
+    if system("wget -T 1 -t 1 http://#{node[:network][:default_gateway]}:#{node[:apt][:cacher_port]}/acng-report.html -O /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1")
+      node.default[:apt][:cacher_ipaddress] = node[:network][:default_gateway]
+      node.default[:apt][:cacher_interface] = 'eth0'
+      Chef::Log.info('Enabling local apt-cache-ng')
+    else
+      node.default[:apt][:cacher_ipaddress] = nil
+      Chef::Log.info('Disabling local apt-cache-ng')
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+rb.run_action(:create)  # Run during compile time so that apt::cacher-client has the correct variables set
+
+# Add in the cacher-client, it will do something or nothing depending on the value of node[:apt][:cacher_ipaddress]
+include_recipe('apt::cacher-client')
+

roles/Basenode.json

@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
   },
   "chef_type": "role",
   "run_list": [
-    "recipe[mini-mon]",
-    "recipe[apt]"
+    "recipe[mini-mon]"
   ],
   "env_run_lists": {
   }