Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner

In addition to the Docker provider, Vagrant can help manage Docker containers and mixed environments using the Docker provisioner. The Docker provisioner can be used to build a virtual machine that hosts Docker containers, or perhaps a host that is provisioned with software with maybe one or two services managed by Docker containers. (For example, a virtual machine can be configured with a database or middleware installation managed in Docker containers, while the machine itself is configured to run a web application natively.)

The Docker provisioner will also manage the Docker runtime, which installs Docker on the virtual machine if necessary. In this example, we'll take a look at installing a MySQL ...