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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

Troubleshooting


With such a large selection of Vagrant commands, sub-commands, parameters, and flags, it is very easy to enter the command and get an error message.

Vagrant is very good at returning an error if you enter the wrong command. There can be a few reasons a command might return an error:

  • You are trying to run a command when no Vagrant machines are running
  • You are trying to run a command against a Vagrant machine with a non-existent or incorrect name/ID, or one that has been deleted
  • There is a typo in your command
  • You have the parameters in the wrong order
  • You have not specified any parameters when they are required
  • You have the flags in the wrong order
  • You have not specified any flags when they are required
  • You are running a provider-specific command when you are not actually using that provider
  • You are running an OS-specific command when you are not actually using that OS

Here are a few troubleshooting tips:

  • Read the error message slowly to see what you may have missed.
  • Run the vagrant [INSERT...