From e1f5c025fd02ebee1821177fad9903f0f932183c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:43:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] website/www: blog posts on Vagrant stability

---
 .gitignore                                    |  1 +
 website/www/Vagrantfile                       | 23 ++++++
 website/www/source/blog.html.erb              |  2 +-
 ...01-20-stability-and-upgrades.html.markdown | 76 +++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 website/www/Vagrantfile
 create mode 100644 website/www/source/blog/2014-01-20-stability-and-upgrades.html.markdown

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 85c6ab03b..a206bde81 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ acceptance_config.yml
 boxes/*
 /Vagrantfile
 /.vagrant
+/website/www/.vagrant
 /vagrant-spec.config.rb
 
 # Bundler/Rubygems
diff --git a/website/www/Vagrantfile b/website/www/Vagrantfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bab5d6429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/www/Vagrantfile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
+VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
+
+$script = <<SCRIPT
+sudo apt-get -y update
+sudo apt-get -y install curl
+curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
+. ~/.bashrc
+. ~/.bash_profile
+rvm install 2.0.0
+rvm --default use 2.0.0
+cd /vagrant
+bundle
+SCRIPT
+
+Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
+  config.vm.box = "precise64"
+  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "33.33.33.10"
+  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $script, privileged: false
+end
diff --git a/website/www/source/blog.html.erb b/website/www/source/blog.html.erb
index 0771241e3..eaa1a01ae 100644
--- a/website/www/source/blog.html.erb
+++ b/website/www/source/blog.html.erb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ page_title: "Blog"
 ---
 
 <div class="Modules blog-landing">
-<% blog.articles.each_index do |i| %>
+<% blog.articles.take(5).each_index do |i| %>
 <% article = blog.articles[i] %>
 <div class="row">
 	<div class="span8">
diff --git a/website/www/source/blog/2014-01-20-stability-and-upgrades.html.markdown b/website/www/source/blog/2014-01-20-stability-and-upgrades.html.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..43414d88f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/www/source/blog/2014-01-20-stability-and-upgrades.html.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+---
+page_title: "Vagrant Stability and Upgrades"
+title: "Vagrant Stability and Upgrades"
+author: Mitchell Hashimoto
+author_url: https://github.com/mitchellh
+---
+
+At nearly four years old, Vagrant is considered mature and stable software.
+Thousands of individuals depend on Vagrant every day to provide
+a stable working environment, crucial to their productivity. We pride ourselves
+on shipping software that can stand up to this requirement.
+
+Even so, we've noticed an unacceptable trend of "upgrade pains" whenever
+a major new version of Vagrant is released. In every case, once Vagrant is
+working, it is very stable. However, after an upgrade, the fact some environments
+have to be "fixed" is not okay.
+
+A big focus of the project for the past couple months has been improving
+stability, especially upgrade stability. In this post, I'd like to discuss
+some of the changes we've made so you can be confident that Vagrant upgrades
+won't break things for you.
+
+READMORE
+
+### Unit Tests
+
+First, unit test coverage within Vagrant itself has increased nearly 20%
+since 1.4.0. The unit test coverage has always been very good across the
+core of Vagrant. However, the test coverage of the core plugins (which power
+all the commands, providers, provisioners, etc.) has been very bad.
+
+For
+Vagrant 1.5, we took a policy of not accepting any changes without associated
+tests, either written by the contributor or a core contributor. This policy
+improved unit test coverage greatly, and these new tests have already caught
+a handful of what would have been subtle upgrade bugs.
+
+### Vagrant-Spec
+
+Next, I've personally focused a large amount of effort on the
+[vagrant-spec](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-spec) project. This
+project is a black-box acceptance test suite for Vagrant. Given a path to
+some boxes and a Vagrant executable, it verifies that various features of
+Vagrant work completely using an outside-in approach.
+
+The vagrant-spec project tests basic commands, managing boxes, managing
+plugins, provisioners, synced folder types, etc. It tests all these features
+across multiple providers. The goal of the project
+is to eventually have tests covering all options of Vagrant.
+
+As we work on features, we run Vagrant against vagrant-spec to verify
+the behavior is still valid. And before any release, we run the complete
+vagrant-spec suite against boxes for a variety of operating systems to
+verify that Vagrant is functioning as it should.
+
+### Longer Deprecation Cycles
+
+Although we've made it clear that we may
+[break compatibility](http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/installation/backwards-compatibility.html)
+of Vagrantfiles for 1.x until 2.0 is final, we've only introduces a couple
+backwards incompatibilities. However, when we have introduced them, we've been
+pretty abrupt about removing the old features.
+
+Starting with 1.5, we're first deprecating features before outright removing
+them. The deprecated features will show a warning when Vagrant is run. These
+features will be removed in a following version of Vagrant.
+
+### Smoother Upgrades
+
+With the above three changes put together, upgrading Vagrant should be a
+smooth, painless process. If there are any pains upgrading future
+Vagrant versions, please
+[report a bug](https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues).
+
+We've always taken stability very seriously and as the number of people
+using Vagrant grows, it becomes even more important to keep Vagrant working.