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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

Understanding Chef


Chef is a popular configuration management tool used to configure and maintain servers. It was created by the company named Chef and is written in Ruby and Erlang. It was initially released in January 2009 and is offered in two different versions – free (open source) and paid (enterprise).

Chef supports and integrates with many cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2, OpenStack, Rackspace, and Microsoft Azure. Chef can be run in solo mode (no dependencies) or in client/server mode, where the client communicates with the server and sends information about the node that it's installed on.

Chef uses Cookbooks and recipes as part of its configuration, which we will focus on in the next section.