Chapter 3. DevOps Test Environment Setup

Before we dive headfirst into implementing DevOps tools, let’s examine how we can set up our test environments to adequately prepare ourselves. We’ll also take a look at how we can start treating our infrastructure instructions just like a developer’s source code.

Topics covered in this chapter include the following:

• Environment provisioning with AutoLab

• Environment provisioning with Vagrant

• Creating images with Packer

• Managing source code

• Git source code control

Environment Provisioning with AutoLab

AutoLab is a vSphere test lab provisioning system developed by Alastair Cooke and Nick Marshall, with contributions from others in the VMware community. AutoLab has grown so popular that at least ...

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