Michael Peacock - Creating Development Environments with Vagrant

Michael Peacock is an experienced software developer and team lead from Newcastle, UK, with a degree in software engineering from the University of Durham.

After spending a number of years running his own web agency, and subsequently, working directly for a number of software start-ups, he now runs his own software development agency, working on a range of projects for an array of different clients.

He is the author of Creating Development Environments with Vagrant , PHP 5 Social Networking , PHP 5 E-Commerce Development , Drupal 7 Social Networking , and Sellingonline with Drupal e-Commerce and Building Websites with TYPO3 , all by Packt Publishing. The other publications Michael has been involved in include Advanced API Security , Mobile Web Development , Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook , and Drupal for Education and E-Learning ; for these he acted as a technical reviewer.

Michael has also presented at a number of user groups and technical conferences, including PHP UK Conference, Dutch PHP Conference, ConFoo, PHPNE, PHPNW, and Could Connect Santa Clara.

You can follow Michael on Twitter (@michaelpeacock), or find out more about him through his website (www.michaelpeacock.co.uk).

I'd like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for their help in getting this revised edition of the book published, and the technical reviewers for ensuring technical accuracy in the book.

Jonathan Bardo is a Montreal-based web developer with a keen interest for new technologies and automation. He has worked for many large-scale websites dealing with millions of daily visitors on various platforms. When he is not programming, he likes to watch a good TV show or travel somewhere he has never been before. If you see him riding his motorcycle or skiing down a hill, just say hi! He is very friendly!

Jonathan runs his own consulting company, which lets him meet all sorts of interesting clients, such as Fox Broadcasting (USA), Rogers Digital Media (Canada), and Yellow Pages Group (Canada).

A special thanks to everyone who has been a part of my journey so far! I wouldn't be here without all the incredible people I worked with everyday.

Anirudh Bhatnagar is a principal consultant at Xebia. He started his career as a developer working in product-based companies such as Adobe.

Anirudh has been working mostly with Java-based technology stacks that use Spring, Hibernate, XML, web services, REST, CMS, SSO, ESB, and Liferay.

During the last few years, Anirudh has been advocating Continuous Delivery and is interested in technologies such as Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, and many more. He regularly contributes to the community via blogs, articles, meetups, conferences, and open source projects.

More details about him can be found on his blog (http://anirudhbhatnagar.com).

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Preface

Web-based software projects are increasingly complicated, with a range of different dependencies, requirements, and interlinking components. Swapping between projects, which require different versions of the same software, becomes troublesome. Getting team members up and running on new projects becomes time-consuming.

Vagrant is a powerful tool used to create, manage, and work with virtualized development environments for your projects. By creating a virtual environment for each project, their dependencies and requirements are isolated, they also don't interfere with the software installed on your own machine such as WAMP or MAMP. Colleagues can be up and running on a new project in minutes with a single command. With Vagrant, we can wipe the slate clean if we break our environment and be back up and running in no time.

What this book covers

, Getting Started with Vagrant , introduces the concept of virtualization, its importance in the role of the development environment, and walks you through the Vagrant installation process.