Vagrant: Up and Running

Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use this open source software to quickly build a virtual machine for any purpose—including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.

Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. Start creating development environments with Vagrant, and learn how to save time, avoid frustration, and prevent costly errors.

• Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configuration
• Create a development environment that closely resembles production
• Automate software installation and management with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet
• Set up a network interface to access your virtual machine from any computer
• Use your own editor and browser to develop and test your applications
• Test complicated multi-machine clusters with a single Vagrantfile
• Change Vagrant’s default operating system to match your production OS
• Extend Vagrant features with plugins, including components you build yourself

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Vagrant
Chapter 2. Your First Vagrant Machine
Chapter 3. Provisioning Your Vagrant VM
Chapter 4. Networking in Vagrant
Chapter 5. Modeling Multimachine Clusters
Chapter 6. Boxes
Chapter 7. Extending Vagrant with Plug-Ins

Appendix A. Vagrant Environmental Variables
Appendix B. Vagrant Configuration Reference
Appendix C. Troubleshooting and Debugging