Vagrant: Up and Running: Create and Manage Virtualized Development Environments

by Mitchell Hashimoto

Overview

Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose—including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.

Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. This book covers the V1 (1.0.x) configuration syntax running on top of a V2 (1.1+) core, the most stable configuration format running on the latest core.

• Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configuration
• Create a development environment that closely resembles production
• Automate software installation and management with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet
• Set up a network interface to access your virtual machine from any computer
• Use your own editor and browser to develop and test your applications
• Test complicated multi-machine clusters with a single Vagrantfile
• Change Vagrant’s default operating system to match your production OS
• Extend Vagrant features with plugins, including components you build yourself

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449336127
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	158
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Mitchell Hashimoto is a passionate engineer, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. Mitchell has been creating and contributing to open source software for almost a decade. He has spoken at dozens of conferences about his work, such as VelocityConf, OSCON, FOSDEM, and more. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company whose goal is to make the best DevOps tools in the world, including Vagrant. Prior to HashiCorp, Mitchell spent five years as a web developer and another four as an operations engineer.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Vagrant; 1.1 Why Vagrant?; 1.2 The Tao of Vagrant; 1.3 Alternatives to Vagrant; 1.4 Setting Up Vagrant; 1.5 Using Vagrant Without VirtualBox; 1.6 Help!; Chapter 2: Your First Vagrant Machine; 2.1 Up and Running; 2.2 The Vagrantfile; 2.3 Boxes; 2.4 Up; 2.5 Working with the Vagrant Machine; 2.6 What’s Next?; Chapter 3: Provisioning Your Vagrant VM; 3.1 Why Automated Provisioning?; 3.2 Supported Provisioners; 3.3 Manually Setting Up Apache; 3.4 Automated Provisioner Basics; 3.5 Multiple Provisioners; 3.6 "No Provision" Mode; 3.7 In-Depth Provisioner Usage; 3.8 What’s Next?; Chapter 4: Networking in Vagrant; 4.1 Forwarded Ports; 4.2 Host-Only Networking; 4.3 Bridged Networking; 4.4 Composing Networking Options; 4.5 NAT Requirement As the First Network Interface; 4.6 What’s Next?; Chapter 5: Modeling Multimachine Clusters; 5.1 Running Multiple Virtual Machines; 5.2 Controlling Multiple Machines; 5.3 Communication Between Machines; 5.4 Real Example: MySQL; 5.5 What’s Next?; Chapter 6: Boxes; 6.1 Why Boxes?; 6.2 Box Format; 6.3 Basic Box Management with Vagrant; 6.4 Creating New Boxes from an Existing Environment; 6.5 Creating New Boxes from Scratch; 6.6 What’s Next?; Chapter 7: Extending Vagrant with Plug-Ins; 7.1 Extensible Features; 7.2 Managing Vagrant Plug-Ins; 7.3 Plug-In Development Basics; 7.4 A Basic Plug-In Development Environment; 7.5 Developing a Custom Command; 7.6 Adding New Configuration Options; 7.7 Adding a Custom Provisioner; 7.8 Modifying Existing Vagrant Behavior; 7.9 Other Plug-In Components; 7.10 Packaging the Plug-In; Vagrant Environmental Variables; VAGRANT_CWD; VAGRANT_HOME; VAGRANT_LOG; VAGRANT_NO_PLUGINS; VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE; Vagrant Configuration Reference; Troubleshooting and Debugging; IRC; Mailing List/Google Group; Professional Support; Index; Colophon;