Vagrant is an open source tool for deploying and managing software development environments. It isolates the dependencies and configuration from your projects into environments called virtual machines (VMs). You could easily reproduce similar VMs on other computers by using the same configuration as on your computer:
- The first step is to download Vagrant from their website: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html.
The current version at the time of writing this book is vagrant_2.2.7: https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.7/vagrant_2.2.7_x86_64.msi.
- We will now execute the Vagrant installer by using the Run as administrator feature and clicking the Run anyway button:
Figure 7.7 – Starting the installation of Vagrant
- The setup wizard is presented at this point and we then click on the Next button:
Figure 7.8 – Vagrant Setup Wizard
- The end user license agreement is shown and...