March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
17h 17m
English
Content preview from Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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How it works...
VirtualBox allows you to have multiple virtual machines on your computer with different operating systems. Vagrant is a tool allowing you to create those virtual machines and to download and install operating systems on them using a script. Ansible is a Python-based utility that reads instructions from a .yaml configuration file and executes them on a remote server.
The deployment scripts we have just written do the following:
- Create a virtual machine in VirtualBox and install Ubuntu 18 there
- Assign the IP of 192.168.50.5 to the virtual machine
- Set a hostname for the virtual machine
- Upgrade the Linux packages
- Set the localization settings for the server
- Install all Linux dependencies, including Python, Apache, PostgreSQL, ...