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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Port-forwarding


A powerful yet simple way to configure networking in Vagrant is to use port-forwarding. This does not require any advanced knowledge or configuration on your part.

Port-forwarding is the action of linking a port on your host machine to a port on the guest machine. It is as simple as that, but can be really powerful as it allows you to get up and running quickly. 

The following are the steps to configure port-forwarding:

  1. Open up our Vagrantfile. We'll start with a very basic Vagrantfile by using the ubuntu/xenial64 box and a basic shell provision script to install the nginx web server:
  1. Once you've saved the Vagrantfile, run the vagrant up command:

  1. Once the box has completed installing nginx and is up and running, open your web browser and try navigating to localhost:8080:
  1. nginx should be available (possibly not on port 8080), but as you can see, we cannot access it. This is because we have not yet set up port-forwarding. If we access localhost from inside the Vagrant machine, we...
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