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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 command overview


Vagrant is primarily a command-line only tool. By default, there is no graphical user interface, although it is possible to find a few third-party ones online. Vagrant offers a simple and powerful collection of over 25 commands and sub-commands.

To get started with Vagrant commands, open up your Command Prompt / Terminal and run the vagrant --help command. You should now see a list of common commands, these include  box, destroy, and status.

To view the fill list of available and less-commonly-used commands, run  vagrant list-commands. You will now see a larger list of commands with a brief explanation about each one.

To get more information on a specific command and to view its sub-commands, add the --help flag at the end of the command you want to learn more about. An example is vagrant box --help, which would return the following:

When a command has sub-commands available, you can also add the --help flag to that sub-command to learn more. In this case, our command...