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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By : Alex Braunton
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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

Enterprise solutions for Vagrant boxes


If you are looking for a more enterprise solution for hosting and managing your boxes, there are services available to you.

These services offer products and features such as the following:

  • Box-hosting
  • Box versioning
  • Private box access and security
  • Local repositories for offline box access
  • Advanced/smart search

An example of this type of service is Artifactory, which is developed by JFrog. Artifactory is a binary artifact-management tool. Artifactory allows you to host, manage, and version Vagrant boxes in a secure manner. Their focus on security often appeals to enterprise customers who may need to host sensitive data.

Artifactory offers a type of onsite hosting by using local repositories. It still allows you to share access between employees and teams within your organization. These repositories can be cloned to other Artifactory services if access needs to be shared outside local networks. 

Depending on your requirements and company rules, a solution such...