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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By : Alex Braunton
Book Image

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By: Alex Braunton

Overview of this book

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant teaches you how to use Vagrant as a powerful DevOps tool and gives an overview of how it fits into the DevOps landscape. You will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant in Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will then move on to understanding Vagrant commands, discovering its boxes and Vagrant Cloud. After getting to grips with the basics, the next set of chapters helps you to understand how to configure Vagrant, along with networking. You will explore multimachine, followed by studying how to create multiple environments and the communication between them. In addition to this, you will cover concepts such as Vagrant plugins and file syncing. The last set of chapters provides insights into provisioning shell scripts, also guiding you in how to use Vagrant with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Docker, Puppet, and Salt. By the end of this book, you will have grasped Vagrant’s features and how to use them for your benefit with the help of tips and tricks.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant on macOS


In this section, you will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant onto a macOS environment. You will learn how to find out what your CPU architecture is and what version of the Mac operating system you are running. In this section, we will be using macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 64-bit as our example operating system and computer setup.

Prerequisites

Before we install VirtualBox and Vagrant, we need to learn some basic information about your system. This is information required to help you select which package to download.

System version

Finding out what version of macOS you are running will help you choose which package installer to download. 

One of the easiest and quickest ways to find out system information for Mac is to run the sw_vers command in the Terminal:

There are two key values here we can focus on:  ProductName, which is Mac OS X; and ProductVersion, which is 10.13.3.

CPU architecture

A system's CPU architecture is generally 32-bit or 64-bit...