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 ...
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