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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

Vagrant commands in depth


In this section, you will learn about all of the available Vagrant commands and sub-commands. We will explore the most common commands and what each one does. We will look at errors with regards to commands and how to overcome them.

We will split the commands and sub-commands into the following four categories:

  • General
  • Configuration
  • Day-to-day
  • Application-specific

By the end of this section, you will have a good understanding of which commands and sub-commands are available, what they do, and how you can use them on a daily basis.

A brief note on formatting commands

In this chapter, I will use certain keywords as placeholders. These placeholders are for you to enter values into the commands and sub-commands. A typical placeholder will look like this: [INSERT VALUE]. An example would be vagrant login --user [INSERT VALUE], where [INSERT VALUE] would be something such as myusername and the final command that you input would be vagrant login --user myusername. There is no...