Vagrant: Up and Running: Create and Manage Virtualized Development Environments

By Mitchell Hashimoto

Book Overview

Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose--including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.

Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. This book covers the V1 (1.0.x) configuration syntax running on top of a V2 (1.1+) core, the most stable configuration format running on the latest core. Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configuration Create a development environment that closely resembles production Automate software installation and management with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet Set up a network interface to access your virtual machine from any computer Use your own editor and browser to develop and test your applications Test complicated multi-machine clusters with a single Vagrantfile Change Vagrant's default operating system to match your production OS Extend Vagrant features with plugins, including components you build yourself

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449335837
• ISBN13: 9781449335830
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"