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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

Chapter 4. Discovering Vagrant Boxes - Vagrant Cloud

In this chapter, you will learn all about Vagrant boxes. You will learn what a box is, and how to manage one via the Vagrant commands and sub-commands that we covered in the previous chapter. We will also learn about the Vagrant Cloud, which is an online catalog of public and private Vagrant boxes available for you to search and install on your system – ready to use for your own Vagrant environment!

By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid foundational knowledge of Vagrant boxes and the Vagrant Cloud. You will also learn about the following topics:

  • The anatomy of a Vagrant box
  • How to install Vagrant boxes
  • How to remove Vagrant boxes
  • Box versioning
  • What is the Vagrant Cloud?
  • How to create your own box (repackaged)
  • How to upload your custom box to the Vagrant Cloud
  • Enterprise solutions for Vagrant boxes