A short introduction to Vagrant for developers

This was my 8 minute presentation about "Vagrant for developers" at one of our internal Hippo Friday sessions.

Transcript

1. …and why it could be your new best friend! @jreijn
2. DOING CONSULTING? • MySQL? • Postgres? • Oracle? • MongoDB? • Couchbase? • Elasticsearch? • SOLR? • Java 6, 7 or 8?
3. LOCAL INSTALLATION?
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7. JUST 3 STEPS! # Download and set the “base” VM image
 $ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/ precise64.box # Initialise a new vagrant project by creating a Vagrantfile
 $ vagrant init # Boot the VM based on the config file we created
 $ vagrant up
8. VAGRANTFILE
10. MORE COMMANDS $ vagrant status
 $ vagrant ssh
 $ vagrant reload
 $ vagrant provision
 $ vagrant suspend
 $ vagrant resume
 $ vagrant halt
 $ vagrant destroy
 $ vagrant package
 $ vagrant plugin
11. VAGRANT PROVISION
12. PUPPET class { 'postgresql::server': } class { 'postgresql::server::contrib':} postgresql::server::db { 'book':
 user => 'vagrant',
 password => postgresql_password('vagrant', 'password')
 }
14. RESOURCES • Vagrant website: http://www.vagrantup.com/ • List of available Vagrant boxes: http:// www.vagrantbox.es/ • Virtualbox: https://www.virtualbox.org/