Vagrant Basics

A vagrant presentation

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1. Vagrant
2. A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging. Definition
3. Why Vagrant? -Prior to vagrant -Install and configure all the software locally on your development machine -Set it and forget it PHP and mySQL -Easy to configure -Reproducible -Portable
4. Today -A lot of moving parts -Options for underlying technologies -Javascript, Python, Ruby -Web Servers: Apache, Nginx, Unicorn, Thin, RabbitMQ, Solr
6. Runs on top of -VirtualBox -VMware -AWS -Others through the plugin system
7. Commands Vagrant init Vagrant up Vagrant ssh
8. One Command Many Benefits -Create a VM of an OS of your choice -Modify physical properties of this VM -Establish network interfaces -Set shared folders -Boot up the VM to set it to run -Set the hostname of VM -Provision software on VM -Performs host and guest specific tweaking.
9. Set up the Machine
10. SSH Into the machine Halt
11. Destroy the machine
12. The Vagrantfile -Vagrant is configured per project
13. Boxes -Building a VM from scratch is resource- intensive and time consuming -Vagrant uses a base image clones it to rapidly create a usable machine -Boxes are added to vagrant by running -$vagrant box add “name” “location”
14. http://www.vagrantbox.es/
15. Provisioning and Networking Simply add this to the vagrantfile and set up the shell script to install your webserver: config.vm.provision :shell, :path => “bootstrap.sh” Port forwarding: config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 3000, guest: 80
16. Multi-Machine -Vagrant can control multiple guest machines per vagrantfile -Seperate a web and database server -Model a distributed system -Disaster case testing
18. URLs http://www.vagrantup.com/ http://www.vagrantbox.es/ https://www.virtualbox.org/
19. Questions?