Vagrant: Provisioning Dev Environments Automatically

Héctor Fabio Jiménez Saldarriaga

@c1b3rh4ck @h3ctorjs

www.devops.com.co

Harry Potter and Unix/Gnu-Linux Fanboy
Paranoic by default
Interested in Open Source and Open Communities, coorganizer Pereirajs and PereiraTechTalks
DevOps/SysOps practicioner
Infra Engineer at Soluciones Globales SAS
Helping Startups to improve the CI/CD Workflow

What is Vagrant?

Vagrant is an open source tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow.

What is Vagrant?

This means, essentially, that it allows you to manage and share pre-configured virtual machines.and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

What is this all about?

Name: Vagrant
Developer: HashiCorp
Initial Release: 2010
Latest Version: 2.2.6
Written in: Ruby
Operating System: Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, and Microsoft
Interface: Command line
Website: www.vagrantup.com

John Bender and Mitchell Hashimoto

🤗Vagrant is for EveryOne👩‍💻 👨‍💻

For Developers
For SysOps/DevOps/InfraEngineers
For Designers

Focusing on your task

Use Case #1🔭

Focusing on your task

An already all-in-one virtual machine with all the software and dependencies installed is a great way to make developers focused on their tasks.
One just needs to create an optimal virtual box, once, and then it can be distributed to collaborators.

Use Case #2 📈

Improving the workflow

Use Case #2 📈

Improving the workflow

Having the exact same environment, both in development and production (and the intermediary ones[1]). If this is accomplished, the probability of the production app crashing due to an error that was not spot on the development environment is very little

* [1]Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development