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Learning DevOps - Second Edition
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

by Mikael Krief
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant

In the previous chapters, we learned how to provision a piece of infrastructure with Terraform, how to install middleware with Ansible, and, finally, how to create Virtual Machine (VM) images with Packer.

One problem that is frequently pointed out by operational teams is the fact that they need to be able to test all of the automation scripts on isolated environments, that is, environments that are not on the local machine. Indeed, writing scripts with Ansible under Linux, for example, is difficult to test on a local Windows machine.

To answer this problem, we can use virtualization systems such as Hyper-V or VirtualBox, which allow you to have VMs with different operating systems ...

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