Vagrant for Devops

or "A Brief Introduction to Vagrant (again)"

Andrew Tomaka

The Old Days

• Research and order hardware
• Hardware is shipped and received
• Hardware is installed
• Operating system and software are installed

Weeks later

• Server completed

Let's Handcraft a Server

Things are better today

• Virtualization
• "The Cloud"
• Containers
• Other magic buzzwords

But how can we take advantage

By taking advantage of these technologies through the entire development process.

Installation

• Virtual Machine Provider
  • VirtualBox
  • VMware Fusion: pro version
• Many Other Providers
  • Digital Ocean: plugin
  • Linux Containers: plugin
  • AWS, Rackspace, vCenter, etc
  • Vagrant

The Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  # Installs the operating system
  config.vm.box           = 'ubuntu/trusty64'

  # Configures the virtual machine
  config.vm.network       'private_network', ip: '192.168.111.10'
  config.vm.synced_folder 'code/', '/home/vagrant/app'

  # Provisions the system
  config.vm.provision     'shell', path: 'provision/bootstrap.sh'
end

Usage

• Primary commands
  • vagrant up
  • vagrant ssh
  • vagrant destroy
• Others
  • vagrant provision
  • vagrant halt
  • vagrant suspend
  • vagrant resume
  • vagrant push

Demonstration

Other Talks

• Understanding Vagrant and Chef
  • Bryan Ollendyke
• Automated Development Environments w/Vagrant
  • Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant)
• Continuous Delivery of Puppet-Based Infrastructure
  • Sam Kottler

Resources

• This presentation
  • Slides
  • Puppet Sample Project
  • Ruby Sample Project
• Vagrant Documentation
• Puppet Documentation

Try it for yourself