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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

By : Braunton
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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

4.7 (3)
By: Braunton

Overview of this book

Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant teaches you how to use Vagrant as a powerful DevOps tool and gives an overview of how it fits into the DevOps landscape. You will learn how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant in Windows, macOS, and Linux. You will then move on to understanding Vagrant commands, discovering its boxes and Vagrant Cloud. After getting to grips with the basics, the next set of chapters helps you to understand how to configure Vagrant, along with networking. You will explore multimachine, followed by studying how to create multiple environments and the communication between them. In addition to this, you will cover concepts such as Vagrant plugins and file syncing. The last set of chapters provides insights into provisioning shell scripts, also guiding you in how to use Vagrant with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, Docker, Puppet, and Salt. By the end of this book, you will have grasped Vagrant’s features and how to use them for your benefit with the help of tips and tricks.
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Basic usage – running a container


We won't delve too deeply into running Docker as a separate tool. Our focus in this chapter is on using Docker to provision a Vagrant machine, which it does inside Vagrant during the boot up process. We will learn a few basic Docker commands—mainly those that are used during provisioning—to give you a better understanding of what is happening. 

If you are unsure of what specific command you need or would like to learn more, then you can run the docker command, which will list all available commands. This will show you the usage, command options, management commands, and general commands.

Note

Please note: you must have Docker installed to run these commands, or you will get an error.

pull

To pull an image down from the Docker Hub, you can use the docker pull command. An example of this command would be pulling down the nginx image by running the following:

docker pull nginx

This will result in an output similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

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