Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant

Alex Braunton

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781789138054
• eBook ISBN: 9781789136784
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: System Administration
• Index: Computer Science

Use Vagrant to easily build complete development environments

Key Features

• Implement DevOps with Vagrant effectively
• Integrate Vagrant with different tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Docker
• Manage infrastructure with a practical approach

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Explore what development features Vagrant offers
• Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Windows, macOS and Linux
• Harness the power of Vagrant to create powerful development environments
• Utilize DevOps tools such as Docker, Chef, and Puppet
• Understand everything about Vagrant, including networking, plugins, and provisioning
• Use the Vagrant Cloud to install and manage Vagrant boxes

Who this book is for

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant is for you if you are a system administrator, DevOps engineer, DevOps architect, or any stakeholder working with DevOps and wanting to explore Vagrant. Experience in system administration is needed to enjoy this book.

Contributors

About the author

Alex Braunton is a web developer focusing on the LAMP stack by day and a technical tinkerer by night. He is passionate about all technological things and enjoys trying to build robots and home automation systems with his Raspberry Pi collection. Currently, he is focusing on sharpening his DevOps knowledge and experimenting with a range of technologies, such as serverless, virtual reality, and GraphQL. He also has a growing bonsai collection and constantly bores his wife and family about the art and history of bonsai.

I'd like to start by thanking my wife, Francesca. Without her support, this book would not have been possible.
I'd like to thank the incredible team at Packt, who have guided me along every step of this book and have been excellent - especially Rohit Rajkumar and Dattatraya More.
I'd like to thank Mitchell Hashimoto/HashiCorp for creating such a fantastic piece of software, Vagrant. Your ideas and code have truly inspired me.

About the reviewer

Michał Wołonkiewicz started by participating in the home meteo station network (involving an unbreakable DS1820 connected by a 1-Wire converter to an RS-232 interface in an Optiplex G1, operating under the control of OpenBSD) before he even got his driving license. He gained his first commercial experience as a systems engineer in both the public and private sectors, he improved the infrastructure at an investment bank and taught developers how to use it. He runs a consulting company with the goal of providing expertise on IT, Telco, and security technologies. He can be reached at [email protected].

Special thanks to my family – my wife, Ada, and my son, Wojciech – thank...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant
• Command Line-Interface - Vagrant Commands
• Discovering Vagrant Boxes - Vagrant Cloud
• Configuring Vagrant Using a Vagrantfile
• Networking in Vagrant
• Multi-Machine
• Exploring Vagrant Plugins and Syncing Files
• Shell Scripts - Provisioning
• Ansible - Using Ansible to Provision a Vagrant Box
• Chef - Using Chef to Provision a Vagrant Box
• Docker - Using Docker with Vagrant
• Puppet - Using Puppet to Provision a Vagrant Box
• Salt - Using Salt to Provision a Vagrant Box
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