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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

Vagrant cheat sheet


Through this chapter, I have shown you various tips and tricks when using Vagrant. It's always helpful to learn the correct way of doing something and, when comfortable, using faster methods that you may have picked up along the way. In this section, we will highlight some Vagrant shortcuts that I use and that I hope will help you.

Testing a Vagrantfile

When working with a Vagrantfile, large or small, it can be useful to test it as you write it. If writing a complex Vagrantfile, it can be useful to test certain sections as you add them, without writing the whole thing and getting errors.

Run the vagrant validate command to test your Vagrantfile without having to run vagrant up or go through the whole process.

Saving a snapshot

You can quickly and easily save a snapshot of your Vagrant machine and roll back to that at a later date/time. This can be useful for testing purposes, local versioning, and general usage.

Run the vagrant snapshot save [options] [vm-name] [snapshot-save...