Vagrant Training

Vagrant is an open source software used to create and manage virtual development environments. It can be considered a wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox and configuration management software such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet. Vagrant allows you to use virtualization and cloud technologies to power faster, efficient, and sharable development environments. It duplicates the development environment to allow users to easily share and combine data on different machines and also takes care of security concerns. Vagrant Training Curriculum 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 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 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 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 Modeling Multimachine Clusters Running Multiple Virtual Machines, Controlling Multiple Machines, Communication Between Machines. Host-Only Networks Bridged Networks Real Example: MySQL 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 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 Other Plug-In Components Packaging the Plug-In Vagrant Environmental Variables VAGRANT_CWD, VAGRANT_HOME, VAGRANT_LOG, VAGRANT_NO_PLUGINS, VAGRANT_VAGRANTFILE Vagrant Configuration Reference Troubleshooting and Debugging IRC, Mailing List/Google Group, Professional Support