Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition

Vagrant

Vagrant is the tool we are going to use for creating the development environment stack. It is an easy way to initialize ready-to-go virtual machines with minimum effort using preconfigured boxes. All boxes and configurations are placed in one file, called the Vagrant file.

Here is an example of creating a simple Ubuntu box. We made an extra configuration for installing MongoDB using Docker (the usage of Docker will be explained shortly). We assume that you have VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org) and Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com) installed on your computer and that you have internet access.

In this particular case, we are creating an instance of Ubuntu 64-bits using the Ubuntu box (ubuntu/trusty64) and specifying that the ...