Vagrant

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Vagrant Overview

• Vagrant is a computer software for creating and configuring virtual development

environments
• It can be seen as a wrapper around virtualization software such
as VirtualBox, KVM, VMware and around configuration management software such as
Ansible, Chef, Salt or Puppet
• Vagrant is a simpler way for Virtualization and Configuration Management

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Uses of Vagrant

• Vagrant is used to set up one or more virtual machines by:

• Importing pre-made images (called "boxes")
• Setting VM-specific settings (IP address, hostnames, port forwarding, memory, etc.)
• Running provisioning software like Puppet or Chef
• Set Up Multi-VM Networks with Ease
• Source Control
• Various Platforms

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Uses of Vagrant

• For Developers
• If you are a developer, Vagrant will isolate dependencies and their
configuration within a single disposable, consistent environment, without
sacrificing any of the tools you are used to working with (editors, browsers,
debuggers, etc.).
• For Operators
• If you are an operations engineer or DevOps engineer, Vagrant gives you a
disposable environment and consistent workflow for developing and
testing infrastructure management scripts
• For Designers
• If you are a designer, Vagrant will automatically set everything up that is
required for that web app in order for you to focus on doing what you do
best: design
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Alternatives to Vagrant

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Nanobox
• Apache Mesos
• virt-manager
• Stakkr
• Singularity Container
• Fig
• FreeBSD Jails
• BoxGrinder
• Arkose
• Datacol
• plash
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Vagrant Versions

• Vagrant has installers for:

• Debian
• Windows
• CentOS
• Linux
• macOS
• Arch Linux

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Installing Vagrant

• Before we start with Vagrant we need to install Virtual Box as Vagrant uses it to run the
virtual machines
• Download VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Next download and install Vagrant
• Go to https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
• And get the appropriate installer or package for your platform
• Install the package using standard procedures for your operating system

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Setting up Vagrant

• Once you have vagrant on your machine, open the terminal (Linux or Mac) or command
prompt (Windows)
• Create a separate directory for vagrant and initialise a vagrantfile

mkdir my_vagrant
cd my_vagrant
vagrant init

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Setting up Vagrant

• After creating a new Vagrantfile, specifying the box to use for your Vagrant environment
is always the first step
• Instead of building a virtual machine from scratch, which would be a slow and tedious
process, Vagrant uses a base image to quickly clone a virtual machine
• These base images are known as boxes in Vagrant, we will use centos box
• Start the VM and access it using ssh using Putty or Oracle VM Virtualbox

vagrant box add nrel/CentOS-6.5-x86_64

vagrant up
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