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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 8. Exploring Vagrant Plugins and Syncing Files

In this chapter, we will cover powerful, additional functionality in Vagrant. We will learn about Vagrant plugins and syncing files between the host machine and guest machine. By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of the following:

  • Understanding Vagrant plugins
  • Managing Vagrant plugins
  • Vagrant plugin commands and subcommands
  • Finding, installing, and using a Vagrant plugin
  • Vagrant file syncing
  • Syncing files – shared folders, Rsync, and NFS