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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Name: Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Author: Chad O Thompson
ISBN: 9781784393748

by Chad O Thompson

February 2015

Beginner

250 pages

5h 43m

English

Packt Publishing

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Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Table of Contents
Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for

Sections
Getting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example codeErrataPiracyQuestions
1. Setting Up Your Environment
Introduction
Installing Vagrant and VirtualBox
Getting readyHow to do it...Installing VirtualBoxInstalling VagrantHow it works...See also
Initializing your first environment
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Installing Vagrant providers
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Finding additional Vagrant boxes
Getting readyHow to do it...Finding boxesInitializing an environment with a new box:Adding a new box without initializing an environment:There's more...
Using existing virtual machines with Vagrant
Getting readyHow to do it...Packaging the VirtualBox machineConfiguring a Vagrant environmentHow it works...
2. Single Machine Environments
Introduction
Defining a single machine Vagrant environment
How to do it...Simple Vagrant environmentA defined single machine environmentHow it works...
Forwarding ports from a Vagrant machine
How to do it...How it works...
Starting a GUI with Vagrant
Getting readyIntroducing AtlasHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Sharing Vagrant guest folders with the host
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Sharing folders using Network File Systems
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Sharing folders with rsync
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Customizing virtual machine settings (VirtualBox)
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Customizing virtual machine settings (VMware Desktop)
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Sharing environments with source control
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
3. Provisioning a Vagrant Environment
Introduction
Running basic shell commands
How to do it...How it works...
Executing shell scripts in a Vagrantfile
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...Shell scripting in vagrant machinesScript idempotencySee also
Provisioning with external shell scripts
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...Shell provisioningProvisioning with different shell languagesSee also
4. Provisioning with Configuration Management Tools
IntroductionConfiguration management and Vagrant boxes
Configuring Vagrant environments with Puppet
Getting readyHow to do it...Setting up the Vagrant environmentConfiguring PuppetHow it works...There's more...See also
Configuring Vagrant environments with Chef
Getting readyHow to do it...Setting up the Vagrant environmentSetting up Chef provisioningHow it works...There's more...Managing environments with BerkshelfProvisioning with Chef ServerSee also
Provisioning Vagrant environments with Salt
Getting readyHow to do it…Configuring the Vagrant environmentConfiguring Salt provisioningHow it works...See also
Provisioning Vagrant environments with Ansible
Getting readyHow to do it...Setting up the Vagrant environmentSetting up Ansible playbooksHow it works...See also
5. Networked Vagrant Environments
Introduction
Creating a local network
Getting readyHow to do it...Using a static IP address with a hosts fileHow it works...There's more...See also
Defining a multimachine environment
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Specifying the order of machine provisioners
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating clusters of Vagrant machines
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...Configuring DNS with pluginsConfiguring a cluster with etcdClustering with Apache MesosSee also
6. Vagrant in the Cloud
Introduction
Using Vagrant with Amazon Web Services
Getting readyHow to do it...Creating a Vagrant IAM accountSetting up a VPCCreating a security key for Vagrant instancesInstalling the Vagrant-AWS pluginGathering required information for the providerSetting up the Vagrant AWS environmentHow it works…Saving configuration data outside the VagrantfileOverriding Vagrantfile defaultsSpecifying AWS detailsThere's more...See also
Using Vagrant with DigitalOcean
Getting readyCreating a DigitalOcean API tokenCreating a new SSH key pairHow to do it...How it works...See also
Sharing local machines with HashiCorp Atlas
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Sharing web applications with HashiCorp Atlas
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
7. Packaging Vagrant Boxes
Introduction
Packaging Vagrant boxes from ISO files
Getting readyHow to do it...Preparing a virtual machinePackaging the virtual machine as a Vagrant boxInstalling the new Vagrant boxHow it works...There's more...See also
Building Vagrant boxes with Packer
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...The building blocks of Packer templatesBuilding Vagrant boxes with VeeWeeSee also
Sharing Vagrant boxes
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Sharing Vagrant boxes with Atlas
Getting readyHow to do it...There's more...See also
A. Vagrant Plugins
Setting up a Ruby runtime environmentGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
B. A Puppet Development Environment
Setting up a Puppetmaster with the puppet apply provisionerHow to do it...Setting up a source controlled PuppetmasterBootstrapping a Puppetmaster
Provisioning nodes with a Puppetmaster
There's more...See also
C. Using Docker with Vagrant
Introduction
Running Docker containers with Vagrant
How to do it...Installing a Docker image from a repositoryBuilding a Docker image with VagrantSee also
Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner
How to do it...See also
Index

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Provisioning Vagrant environments with Salt

Vagrant machines can also be provisioned using Salt (http://www.saltstack.com). Salt is a combination of configuration management and system orchestration software. Salt relies on a master/minion architecture to enable configuration and control of large clusters of machines, but in this example, we will use masterless salt to provision a basic web server and develop our own salt states that define system configurations.

Getting ready

Compared to other configuration management provisioners, getting started with the Vagrant Salt provisioner is rather easy; the provisioner itself will check for the existence of the salt-call command. If the command does not exist in the Vagrant machine, the provisioner will ...

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