Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool used to build and manage virtualized environments with ease. Vagrant as a tool has evolved over time from support to virtualization to managing end to end DevOps and infrastructure management. Through this book, you’ll be able to quickly install and configure Vagrant to perfectly suit your DevOps and infrastructure needs.

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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 DescriptionHands-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 forHands-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.