Saving Time and Money with Vagrant

Vagrant can aid businesses and developers by creating development environments that mirror production. This talk discusses the basics of Vagrant, real world stories, and how it can be used in various projects.

Originally given at MeetMagentoNY 2014

Transcript

1. July 11, 2017 @timothybroder @Kidfund Saving Time and Money With Vagrant
2. Who am I? Tim Broder CTO, Kidfund @timothybroder http://timbroder.com
3. Agenda What is Vagrant? Vagrant init Key Takeaways
4. Sound Familiar?
5. “I can’t reproduce it locally” “Oh, that’s not the right version” “Ok, so leave a day or so to setup the project” Sound Familiar?
6. Remove frustration. Technology can help.
7. What is Vagrant? An Open Source tool for building and distributing development environments
8. WTF Does That Mean? Vagrant gives you unified development environments that are easily distributable
9. Why do you care? •Match the production stack •Test a server config •Test a deploy script •SETUP. THE. PROJECT.
10. Who benefits? • Solo Developers • Startups • Agencies • Large Scale Businesses
11. vagrant init
12. vagrant init
13. Library conflicts
14. Multiple projects.
15. Complex stacks
16. Starting Out •Vagrant •VirtualBox •VMWare
17. Box?
18. Statement here, use sentences don’t forget the period.
19. Dev Locally. Run on “Prodish” 1. Project files mapped to / vagrant 2. Port Forwarding: guest, local 3. Profit
20. Basic Commands •vagrant up •vagrant halt •vagrant reload •vagrant ssh
21. Provisioning •Chef •Puppet •Docker •Ansible •Salt
22. Box Distribution •VagrantFile in source control •Vagrant package •Box on server
23. Remote Access •vagrant share •http://scorching-moose-9862.vagrantshare.com •http or ssh access
24. Key Takeaways RECAP
25. Test and deploy
 at scale.
26. Infrastructure 
 as Code.
27. Setup the 
 environment anywhere.
28. July 11, 2017 • https://l.kid.fund/vagrant-presentation • @timothybroder • http://timbroder.com • http://kidfund.us