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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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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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

Vagrant cheat sheet


Through this chapter, I have shown you various tips and tricks when using Vagrant. It's always helpful to learn the correct way of doing something and, when comfortable, using faster methods that you may have picked up along the way. In this section, we will highlight some Vagrant shortcuts that I use and that I hope will help you.

Testing a Vagrantfile

When working with a Vagrantfile, large or small, it can be useful to test it as you write it. If writing a complex Vagrantfile, it can be useful to test certain sections as you add them, without writing the whole thing and getting errors.

Run the vagrant validate command to test your Vagrantfile without having to run vagrant up or go through the whole process.

Saving a snapshot

You can quickly and easily save a snapshot of your Vagrant machine and roll back to that at a later date/time. This can be useful for testing purposes, local versioning, and general usage.

Run the vagrant snapshot save [options] [vm-name] [snapshot-save...

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