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Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

You're reading from   Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant Implement end-to-end DevOps and infrastructure management using Vagrant

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138054
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alex Braunton Alex Braunton
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant 3. Command Line-Interface - Vagrant Commands 4. Discovering Vagrant Boxes - Vagrant Cloud 5. Configuring Vagrant Using a Vagrantfile 6. Networking in Vagrant 7. Multi-Machine 8. Exploring Vagrant Plugins and Syncing Files 9. Shell Scripts - Provisioning 10. Ansible - Using Ansible to Provision a Vagrant Box 11. Chef - Using Chef to Provision a Vagrant Box 12. Docker - Using Docker with Vagrant 13. Puppet - Using Puppet to Provision a Vagrant Box 14. Salt - Using Salt to Provision a Vagrant Box 15. Other Book You May Enjoy

Using Docker to provision a Vagrant machine

Now that we've learned a bit about Docker, we can get to the fun part! In this section, we will go through an example of using Docker to provision a Vagrant machine. One thing to note is that Vagrant will attempt to install Docker so that you don't have to. Interestingly, Docker is run within the Vagrant machine, not on your host machine. You'll see this as you will be able to SSH into the Vagrant machine and run Docker commands.

Let's get started and provision our Vagrant machine using Docker:

  1. To begin, run the vagrant init -m command to create a minimal Vagrantfile.
  2. In our Vagrantfile, let's add in a provision block:
 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8081
config.vm.provision...
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