Pro Vagrant

Pro Vagrant teaches you how to effectively implement and optimize Vagrant in your everyday work environment. Master the creation and configuration of virtual development environments with an easy-to-use workflow, and focus on automation. Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the “works on my machine” excuse a relic of the past.

DevOps is mainstream best practice nowadays, and Vagrant sits firmly in the DevOps toolkit. This book will take you from basic usage and getting started, to provisioning with Shell, Puppet, and Chef. You will see how to use Vagrant in real-life scenarios, so that you can start to use Vagrant day-to-day in your work.

Author Wodimierz Gajda is a Vagrant expert and now brings his experience to you in Pro Vagrant. This is an indispensable book for anyone using Vagrant – add it to your library today.

What you’ll learn

• Get started with Vagrant, basic usage
• Provisioning with Shell, Puppet, and Chef
• How to use Vagrant in real-life scenarios

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone wishing to implement Vagrant as a DevOps tool, to master the creation and configuration of virtual development environments with an easy-to-use workflow, and focus on automation.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Vagrant
Chapter 2: Four Web Frameworks in Four Minutes
Chapter 3: The States of VM
Chapter 4: Default Configuration and Security Settings of the Guest VM
Chapter 5: Your First Box
Chapter 6: Provisioning
Chapter 7: Creating Boxes from Scratch
Chapter 8: Configuring Vir tual Machines
Chapter 9: One True Workflow
Chapter 10: Going Pro