Vagrant by Hashimoto, Mitchell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Vagrant: Up and Running Foreword Preface

Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Content Updates

October 29, 2013

Acknowledgments

1. An Introduction to Vagrant

Why Vagrant? The Tao of Vagrant Alternatives to Vagrant

Plain Desktop Virtualization Containers Cloud

Vagrant Versions Setting Up Vagrant

Installing VirtualBox Installing Vagrant

Mac OS X Windows Linux

Common Mistakes

Improper PATH Configuration Conflicting RubyGems Installation

Using Vagrant Without VirtualBox Help!

2. Your First Vagrant Machine

Up and Running The Vagrantfile

V1 versus V2 Configuration

Boxes Up Working with the Vagrant Machine

State of the Vagrant Machine SSH Shared Filesystem Basic Networking Teardown

Suspend Halt Destroy

What’s Next?

3. Provisioning Your Vagrant VM

Why Automated Provisioning? Supported Provisioners Manually Setting Up Apache Automated Provisioner Basics

Shell Scripts Chef Puppet

Multiple Provisioners “No Provision” Mode In-Depth Provisioner Usage

Shell Scripts

Inline scripts Run-once scripts

Chef Server Puppet

Modules Hiera Data Custom Facts Using a Puppet Master

What’s Next?

4. Networking in Vagrant

Forwarded Ports

Pros and Cons Basic Usage Collision Detection and Correction TCP versus UDP

Host-Only Networking

Pros and Cons Basic Usage Guest Operating System Dependency

Bridged Networking

Pros and Cons Basic Usage

Composing Networking Options NAT Requirement As the First Network Interface What’s Next?

5. Modeling Multimachine Clusters

Running Multiple Virtual Machines Controlling Multiple Machines Communication Between Machines

Host-Only Networks Bridged Networks

Real Example: MySQL What’s Next?

6. Boxes

Why Boxes? Box Format Basic Box Management with Vagrant Creating New Boxes from an Existing Environment Creating New Boxes from Scratch

Creating the VirtualBox Machine Configuring the Operating System Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions Additional Software Minimizing the Final Box Size Packaging It Up Setting Vagrantfile Defaults

What’s Next?

7. Extending Vagrant with Plug-Ins

Extensible Features Managing Vagrant Plug-Ins Plug-In Development Basics

Plug-In Definition Plug-In Components Error Handling Vagrant Internals

A Basic Plug-In Development Environment Developing a Custom Command

Component Implementation Working with the Virtual Machine Working with Multimachine Environments Parsing Command-Line Options

Adding New Configuration Options

Component Implementation Accessing the Configuration Configuration Merging Validation

Adding a Custom Provisioner

Component Implementation Provisioner Configuration Configuring the Machine

Modifying Existing Vagrant Behavior

Component Implementation Useful Keys in the Action Environment Learning More

Other Plug-In Components Packaging the Plug-In

A. Vagrant Environmental Variables

VAGRANT_CWD VAGRANT_HOME VAGRANT_LOG VAGRANT_NO_PLUGINS VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE

B. Vagrant Configuration Reference C. Troubleshooting and Debugging

IRC Mailing List/Google Group Professional Support

Index About the Author Colophon Copyright

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