Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Setting Up Your Environment

Introduction

Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox

Initializing your first environment

Installing Vagrant providers

Finding additional Vagrant boxes

Using existing virtual machines with Vagrant

Chapter 2. Single Machine Environments

Introduction

Defining a single machine Vagrant environment

Forwarding ports from a Vagrant machine

Starting a GUI with Vagrant

Sharing Vagrant guest folders with the host

Sharing folders using Network File Systems

Sharing folders with rsync

Customizing virtual machine settings (VirtualBox)

Customizing virtual machine settings (VMware Desktop)

Sharing environments with source control

Chapter 3. Provisioning a Vagrant Environment

Introduction

Running basic shell commands

Executing shell scripts in a Vagrantfile

Provisioning with external shell scripts

Chapter 4. Provisioning with Configuration Management Tools

Introduction

Configuring Vagrant environments with Puppet

Configuring Vagrant environments with Chef

Provisioning Vagrant environments with Salt

Provisioning Vagrant environments with Ansible

Chapter 5. Networked Vagrant Environments

Introduction

Creating a local network

Defining a multimachine environment

Specifying the order of machine provisioners

Creating clusters of Vagrant machines

Chapter 6. Vagrant in the Cloud

Introduction

Using Vagrant with Amazon Web Services

Using Vagrant with DigitalOcean

Sharing local machines with HashiCorp Atlas

Sharing web applications with HashiCorp Atlas

Chapter 7. Packaging Vagrant Boxes

Introduction

Packaging Vagrant boxes from ISO files

Building Vagrant boxes with Packer

Sharing Vagrant boxes

Sharing Vagrant boxes with Atlas

Appendix A. Vagrant Plugins

Setting up a Ruby runtime environment

Appendix B. A Puppet Development Environment

Setting up a Puppetmaster with the puppet apply provisioner

Provisioning nodes with a Puppetmaster

Appendix C. Using Docker with Vagrant

Introduction

Running Docker containers with Vagrant

Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner