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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant
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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

by Alex Braunton
October 2018
Beginner
232 pages
7h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing a Vagrant plugin

Let's install a plugin from the RubyGems website. I've searched for vagrant and found one called vagrant-hostsupdater, which is currently version 1.1.1.160 and has just over 500,000 downloads. Here is a screenshot of the plugin in the RubyGems search results:

This plugin will attempt to edit your /etc/hosts file by adding and removing hosts when Vagrant machines are created and destroyed, respectively. This means that you can access the Vagrant machine by a domain name such as machine.dev instead of 192.168.10.10.

We can install this plugin by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater ...
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