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Vagrant
A tool to manage virtual machines. Its used to creating reproducible working environments for testing and development
Virtual Machine
Virtual machine is software for emulation of a computer system.
- There are chiefly 2 categories of virtual machines, System or Process
- Today we are concerned with System Virtual Machine
- A system virtual machine can emulate hardware of a physical computer
- They are used for isolating working/execution environments. This strategy is used to provide service in cloud.
- Its also useful for testing for systems/architecture for which you don't have physical hardware.
Popular Virtual Machine software
- VirtualBox
- KVM
- xen
- VMware
Demo
Setting up vagrant on mac
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew cask install virtualbox
brew cask install vagrant
Adding a vagrant box
Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. A box can be used by anyone on any platform that Vagrant supports to bring up an identical working environment.
- Copy the "ubuntu_12.04_java7.box" file from bagoba to your home folder
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Add the copied image to vagrant using following command
vagrant box add ubuntu-12.04 ubuntu_12.04_java7.box
Initialize Vagrant box
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Create a folder for your development environment
mkdir testvagrant cd testvagrant
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Initialize Vagrant with the box you just imported
vagrant init ubuntu-12.04
- Notice that there is a `Vagrantfile` in your dir now. Open it in your text editor
Start vagrant machine
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Start vm with:
vagrant up
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SSH into your vagrant machine:
vagrant ssh
Sharing Files with Vagrant
- By default, vagrant mounts the directory you spawn your machine from at /vagrant inside the vm
- One advantage of sharing files like this is that you can use your favorite tools to code and then execute it from within VM
Provisioning on your vagrant machine
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Add these lines in your Vagrantfile. Uncomment if they are already present:
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <-SHELL sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y apache2 SHELL
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Provision your vagrant machine:
vagrant provision
Configure your vagrant machine with a accessible private static ip
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Provision your vagrant machine:
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
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Restart vagrant using:
vagrant reload
Suspend, Stopping and destroying vagrant machine
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Suspend your vagrant machine:
vagrant suspend
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Stop your vagrant machine:
vagrant halt
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Destroy your vagrant machine:
vagrant destroy
Vagrant plug-ins
Vagrant's functions can be extended via plugins. Lots of amazing plug-ins available via community. Some Useful plugins:
- vagrant-cachier: helps with fetching packages again and again using a NFS cache volume
- vagrant-scp: copy files in vagrant using scp
Vagrant Basics
By Ayush Goyal
Vagrant Basics
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