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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
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Vagrant
Chapter 2: Your First Vagrant Machine
Chapter 3: Provisioning Your Vagrant VM
Chapter 4: Networking in Vagrant
Chapter 5: Modeling Multimachine Clusters
Chapter 6: Boxes
Chapter 7: Extending Vagrant with Plug-Ins
Vagrant Environmental Variables
Vagrant Configuration Reference
Troubleshooting and Debugging
Index
Colophon
About the author
Mitchell Hashimoto is an operations engineer and prolific open source contributor. Mitchell created Vagrant, a tool for creating and distributing virtualized development environments. Vagrant is used by companies such as Mozilla, RackSpace, and Nokia, and many more. Mitchell currently works full time as an operations engineer for Kiip, a mobile rewards network. Mitchell also enjoys speaking at conferences about open source, DevOps, and Vagrant, and has spoken at Velocity Conf, FOSDEM, RubyConf, and more.
Summary
How does Vagrant boost the productivity of companies such as Mozilla, RackSpace, LivingSocial, and others? This comprehensive guide shows you how to create and distribute virtualized development environments with this powerful open source tool.
