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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Feb, 2015 | 250 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting Up Your Environment
Setting Up Your Environment
Introduction
Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox
Initializing your first environment
Installing Vagrant providers
Finding additional Vagrant boxes
Using existing virtual machines with Vagrant
2
Single Machine Environments
Single Machine Environments
Introduction
Defining a single machine Vagrant environment
Forwarding ports from a Vagrant machine
Starting a GUI with Vagrant
Sharing Vagrant guest folders with the host
Sharing folders using Network File Systems
Sharing folders with rsync
Customizing virtual machine settings (VirtualBox)
Customizing virtual machine settings (VMware Desktop)
Sharing environments with source control
3
Provisioning a Vagrant Environment
Provisioning a Vagrant Environment
Introduction
Running basic shell commands
Executing shell scripts in a Vagrantfile
Provisioning with external shell scripts
4
Provisioning with Configuration Management Tools
Provisioning with Configuration Management Tools
Introduction
Configuring Vagrant environments with Puppet
Configuring Vagrant environments with Chef
Provisioning Vagrant environments with Salt
Provisioning Vagrant environments with Ansible
5
Networked Vagrant Environments
Networked Vagrant Environments
Introduction
Creating a local network
Defining a multimachine environment
Specifying the order of machine provisioners
Creating clusters of Vagrant machines
6
Vagrant in the Cloud
Vagrant in the Cloud
Introduction
Using Vagrant with Amazon Web Services
Using Vagrant with DigitalOcean
Sharing local machines with HashiCorp Atlas
Sharing web applications with HashiCorp Atlas
7
Packaging Vagrant Boxes
Packaging Vagrant Boxes
Introduction
Packaging Vagrant boxes from ISO files
Building Vagrant boxes with Packer
Sharing Vagrant boxes
Sharing Vagrant boxes with Atlas
Vagrant Plugins
Vagrant Plugins
Setting up a Ruby runtime environment
A Puppet Development Environment
A Puppet Development Environment
Setting up a Puppetmaster with the puppet apply provisioner
Provisioning nodes with a Puppetmaster
Using Docker with Vagrant
Using Docker with Vagrant
Introduction
Running Docker containers with Vagrant
Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner
Index
Index

Using Vagrant with Amazon Web Services

One of the more popular cloud platforms in recent years has been Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com), an Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) platform that has several categories of services, ranging from simple computational instances (Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2) to fully managed application deployment services such as Amazon Beanstalk.

Vagrant can be used with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as either an extension of a desktop computing environment, using AWS to provide more computational power and better networking than you might have available in a desktop environment, or as a way to develop and test code written to interact with other Amazon applications or data services.

Getting ready

Before we can spin up and use EC2 instances with Vagrant, we'll need to set up an account with Amazon Web Services. While setting up the initial account is beyond the scope of this recipe, we can note a few practices that you will want to be aware of before starting...

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