Creating Development Environments with Vagrant, 2nd Edition

Vagrant is an open source software used to create and manage virtual development environments. It can be considered a wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox and configuration management software such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet.

This book looks at the potential that virtualization offers us, and breaks down the process of creating a distributable and powerful virtual development environment. You will learn how to create more advanced development environments consisting of multiple virtual machines, allowing you to mimic multi-server production environments.

Finally, you’ll gain an insight into Vagrant Cloud, which is a suite of web services built into Vagrant that allows you to remotely view applications on a Vagrant instance.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Vagrant
Chapter 2. Managing Vagrant Boxes and Projects
Chapter 3. Provisioning with Puppet
Chapter 4. Using Ansible
Chapter 5. Using Chef
Chapter 6. Provisioning Vagrant Machines with Puppet, Ansible, and Chef
Chapter 7. Working with Multiple Machines
Chapter 8. Creating Your Own Box
Chapter 9. HashiCorp Atlas