Braunton - Hands-on DevOps with Vagrant : implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant

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Alex Braunton is a web developer focusing on the LAMP stack by day and a technical tinkerer by night. He is passionate about all technological things and enjoys trying to build robots and home automation systems with his Raspberry Pi collection. Currently, he is focusing on sharpening his DevOps knowledge and experimenting with a range of technologies, such as serverless, virtual reality, and GraphQL. He also has a growing bonsai collection and constantly bores his wife and family about the art and history of bonsai.

Micha Woonkiewicz started by participating in the home meteo station network (involving an unbreakable DS1820 connected by a 1-Wire converter to an RS-232 interface in an Optiplex G1, operating under the control of OpenBSD) before he even got his driving license. He gained his first commercial experience as a systems engineer in both the public and private sectors, he improved the infrastructure at an investment bank and taught developers how to use it. He runs a consulting company with the goal of providing expertise on IT, Telco, and security technologies. He can be reached at michal@wolonkiewi.cz .

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Vagrant is an open source tool that allows you to programatically create and manage virtual environments. Vagrant's main focus is on creating development environments that can be shared between teams all over the world. It removes the "works fine on my machine" problem and allows anyone with the Vagrantfile configuration to create an exact copy of the original machine.

Vagrant was created and is maintained by Mitchell Hashimoto and HashiCorp with a continuous stream of support and updates. It's a piece of software that has been going from strength to strength since its creation in 2010.

In this book, we'll cover many aspects of Vagrant. The book can be used by beginners who have very little or no experience with Vagrant. We'll cover how to install Vagrant and all of the basic knowledge needed to get up and running.

This book can also be used by more advanced users who wish to better understand and utilize Vagrant. We'll cover the available commands, networking, multi-machine, and provisioning with configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible.

Whatever level you are at, this book will teach you something new or help reinforce your knowledge and offer tips and tricks.

, Introduction , acts as a great introduction to the world of Vagrant. It will help create a foundation of knowledge to guide you through the book. You will learn what Vagrant is, the benefits of Vagrant, what VirtualBox is, and what DevOps is. You'll also learn how Vagrant fits into the DevOps landscape, how it can be used as a DevOps tool, and take a look at other pieces of software.

) to download, install, and verify the software, once it has been installed.

, Command Line-Interface - Vagrant Commands