Recently I’ve found myself needing to set up a bunch of virtual machines with geoserver on. As part of the pain of this I discovered vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/) which is pretty cute. However you still need to install GeoServer and Java and Tomcat etc to get going so I’ve built a vagrant repo that automatically fetches the latest geoserver war and deploys it to tomcat.
It saved me sometime so I’ve stuck it on Github (https://github.com/ianturton/geoserver-vagrant) feel free to have a play and let me know how it goes and push back any improvements. If I get time I might learn puppet (http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet) and upgrade it but don’t wait for me.
Have fun
Ian
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Ian Turton