Vagrant Up in 5 Easy Steps

Vagrant Up in 5 Easy Steps

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  Vagrant Up in5 Easy Steps Trevor Roberts Jr @VMTrooper Cody Bunch @cody_bunch
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  Introduction  What isVagrant?  Created by Mitchell Hashimoto  Provisioning Tool for Dev & Test Environments  Why use Vagrant?  Quick  Easily replicate production on a Dev box  How do I get started?
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  Step 1: Selectyour Provider  What is a provider?  Oracle VirtualBox (Free)  VMware Fusion or Workstation ($)  Build your own (AWS, Rackspace, etc.)
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  Step 2: InstallVagrant  http://downloads.vagrantup.com
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  Step 3: Downloada box  VirtualBox: http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box  VMware Fusion: http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box  Build your own or use others: http://www.vagrantbox.es/
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  Step 4: VagrantInit & Up Open a Terminal Window in the directory for your test lab:  vagrant init  Edit the resulting Vagrantfile  vagrant up
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  Step 5: VagrantSSH Login to the VM using vagrant CLI:  vagrant ssh
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  Success!
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  But wait, there’smore…  Version Control  Customize Your VM  Multi-VM Configuration (Static & Dynamic)  VM Provisioners  Squid Proxy
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  Version Control  SourceCode Control for your Vagrantfile  Git, SVN, etc.  Online collaboration  GitHub, BitBucket, etc.  This presentation and example code can be found at: https://github.com/VMTrooper/VagrantBrownBag
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  Customize Your VM Hostname  config.vm.hostname = "controller"  IP Address  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: 178.16.172.200 NOTE: for NAT addresses (i.e. :public_network), you will need to do some extra work involving DHCP
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  Customize Your VM Memory # If using Fusion config.vm.provider :vmware_fusion do |v| v.vmx["memsize"] = 1024 end # If using VirtualBox config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vbox| vbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024] end
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  Multi-VM Configuration  Sharefiles between VMs.  The Vagrantfile’s folder is mounted to /vagrant on each VM  See sample code
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  Provisioners  Configuration Management Shell Scripts  Puppet (Standalone & Agent)  Chef (Solo & Client)  Ansible
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  Additional Info  VagrantSite: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/  Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vagrant-up  IRC: #vagrant on Freenode  GitHub (Check out bunchc, bodepd, ody, etc)  For Fusion-related tips, I post them as I find them:  http://vmtrooper.com/category/automation/vagrant/  Mitchell’s Book