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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

Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant on Windows


In this section, you will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant onto a Windows environment, how to find out what your CPU architecture is, and what version of the Windows operating system you are running. We will use an Enterprise edition of Windows 10 64-bit as our example operating system and computer setup.

Prerequisites

Before we install VirtualBox and Vagrant, we need to learn some basic information about your system. This is information required to help you select which package to download.

System version

Finding out which version of Windows you are running will help when choosing which package installer to download. Each version of Windows is different, but we will be covering how to do this using Windows 10.

There are two ways you can do this; the first is a fairly quick and simple way using the Command Prompt in Windows:

  1. Press the Windows key + the R key (or click Start and search for run)
  2. This will open a prompt in this prompt, type winver...