You'll have a highly functional lab for software development up fast with some added agility for prototyping infrastructure choices too. Simply use Vagrant and VirtualBox together. No longer do you have to wait to build a physical machine, then wait to download ISO images of the virtualization stuff, operating systems, software packages etc. Why Use Vagrant and Virtualbox?īuilding a software prototyping environment (aka lab) is far simpler than ever before.
In summary, this is a time-saving tool for standing up VMs faster, configuring them, adding packages to VMs, or integrating your virtual platforms with tools like Ansible. It allows for some fundamental integration and automation with platforms like VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, etc. Vagrantis a time-saving open source ( MIT) tool from our friends at HashiCorp. For advanced users, it also has some command line, advanced networking capabilities, and integrates nicely with Vagrant. Your virtual machines will be hosted in this on top of your base OS, sharing its resources. VirtualBoxis an open source ( GPL v2) virtualization platform that works on almost any base OS.
In this blog, we give an overview of VirtualBox and Vagrant, how they can combine to form a virtual prototyping environment, and instructions for setting up your first lab. But if you use Vagrant and VirtualBox, you can virtualize and save time. Vagrant ssh boxname open an ssh connection to the given box.Virtualization can be time-consuming, especially in open source. Running vagrant up after running vagrant destroy bootstraps a new box. This is useful if for some reason the box has been damaged or to free diskspace. Vagrant destroy boxname destroys the given box. Vagrant provision boxname Runs the provisioner. Vagrant reload boxname stop and start the given box. May require an invocation using the –force flag (vagrant halt –force ) if the box crashed, locked up or cannot be accessed via vagrant ssh Running vagrant up when the box is already running is a NOOP and has no effect. If the box has not been initialized and created, this will download the basebox as required, bootstrap it and run the provisioner. Group The magical one-liner $ vagrant up A simple list of vagrant commands Puppet.manifests_path = “puppet/manifests” #Puppet gets grumpy if the hostname is not a FQDN…Īpp.vm.host_name = “appserver00.local”app.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|# change fqdn to give to change the vm virtual host # prompt you to select an actual interface.Īpp.vm.network :bridged, :bridge => “eth0” # if eth0 does not exist then Vagrant will # bridge the VM on the host’s eth0 interface
# make sure our apt sources are up to date…Ĭonfig.vm.provision :shell, :inline => “apt-get update –fix-missing”# config for the appserver box, same name as. # vi: set ft=ruby :Vagrant::n do |config|# base box and URL where to get it if not present $ touch puppet/manifests/appserver.pp touch puppet/manifests/rvm.pp touch puppet/manifests/users.pp $ mkdir puppet mkdir puppet/manifests mkdir puppet/modules Now create the directories and config files required for Puppet. $ vagrant box add precise64 /precise64.box Getting Puppet Started Here’s a short overview of the commands involved in getting Vagrant going.
Download & install Vagrant (currently using Vagrant v1.1.4).