Docker in Practice

Appendix C. Vagrant

At various points in this book we use virtual machines to demonstrate a technique for Docker that requires a full machine representation, or even multi-virtual-machine orchestration.

Vagrant offers a simple way to start, provision, and manage virtual machines from the command line, and it’s available on multiple platforms.

C.1. Setting up

Go to https://www.vagrantup.com and follow the instructions there to get set up.

C.2. GUIs

When running vagrant up to start up a virtual machine, Vagrant reads the local file called Vagrantfile to determine the settings.

A useful setting that you can create or change within the section for your provider is the gui one:

v.gui = true

For example, if your provider is VirtualBox, a typical ...