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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

Understanding Ansible


Ansible is an open source piece of software used to make IT automation simple and offers automation for everyone. Ansible is a tool used for configuration management, software provisioning, and application deployment. It's a powerful tool that offers many features. These features include the following:

  • It can run locally on the host or guest machine
  • It has an extensive plugin ecosystem
  • It can orchestrate infrastructure using many cloud providers
  • It can be installed on many different operating systems
  • It has simple inventory management
  • It has simple and powerful automation with Playbooks
  • Well-written and extensive documentation

Ansible offers a minimal approach to provisioning your software with an easy to learn syntax and is built to be reliable and secure. We'll learn more about Ansible as we work through this chapter by installing it, creating and testing Playbooks, and provisioning a Vagrant machine.

Some more interesting facts about Ansible are that it is part of Red Hat...