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Creating Development Environments with Vagrant

By : MICHAEL KEITH PEACOCK
Book Image

Creating Development Environments with Vagrant

By: MICHAEL KEITH PEACOCK

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Creating Development Environments with Vagrant Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Provisioning within Vagrant


Vagrant relies on base boxes for the guest virtual machines; these are specifically preconfigured virtual machine images that have certain software packages preinstalled and preconfigured. Puppet and Chef are two such software packages that are preinstalled (Ansible is controlled by Vagrant itself on the host machine, so it isn't installed on the virtual machine, but requires an SSH connection to the virtual machine). Vagrant has its own interface through to these packages from the host machine. This means we can provide some configuration in our Vagrant file, and Vagrant will pass this information to the relevant provisioners on the guest VM.