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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

By : Chad O Thompson

Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

By: Chad O Thompson

Overview of this book

If you are a software developer or administrator who wishes to create simple, reusable environments using Vagrant, this book is the perfect choice for you. Whether you are a system administrator with extensive experience in virtualization or a developer wishing to create development scripts for cloud deployment, you will find easy-to-follow recipes and techniques in this book that will allow you to create robust and reproducible virtual environments.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Setting Up Your Environment

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

2. Single Machine Environments

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

3. Provisioning a Vagrant Environment

3. Provisioning a Vagrant Environment

Introduction

Running basic shell commands

Executing shell scripts in a Vagrantfile

Provisioning with external shell scripts

4. Provisioning with Configuration Management Tools

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

5. Networked Vagrant Environments

5. Networked Vagrant Environments

Introduction

Creating a local network

Defining a multimachine environment

Specifying the order of machine provisioners

Creating clusters of Vagrant machines

6. Vagrant in the Cloud

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

7. Packaging Vagrant Boxes

7. Packaging Vagrant Boxes

Introduction

Packaging Vagrant boxes from ISO files

Building Vagrant boxes with Packer

Sharing Vagrant boxes

Sharing Vagrant boxes with Atlas

A. Vagrant Plugins

A. Vagrant Plugins

Setting up a Ruby runtime environment

B. A Puppet Development Environment

B. A Puppet Development Environment

Setting up a Puppetmaster with the puppet apply provisioner

Provisioning nodes with a Puppetmaster

C. Using Docker with Vagrant

C. Using Docker with Vagrant

Introduction

Running Docker containers with Vagrant

Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner

Index

Index

Running basic shell commands

The most basic method of provisioning is to run simple shell commands in the Vagrant machine. For Linux environments, this typically means executing basic shell commands with shells that are typically bundled with distributions (sh, bash, zsh, and so on). The provisioning process can also execute other command-line applications if runtime environments are installed (such as system provisioning with Ruby or Perl).

In this example, we'll use a shell command to install a basic Message of The Day command to output a greeting on login using the vagrant ssh command.

How to do it...

We'll start this example with a simple Vagrantfile that boots a basic Ubuntu environment. Here is the complete Vagrantfile:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "puppetlabs/ubuntu-14.04-32-nocm"
end

Booting this environment with vagrant up will start a basic...

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