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Practical DevOps, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical DevOps, Second Edition Implement DevOps in your organization by effectively building, deploying, testing, and monitoring code

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788392570
Length 250 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Vagrant

Vagrant is a configuration system for VMs. It is geared towards creating VMs for developers, but it can be used for other purposes as well.

Vagrant supports several virtualization providers, and VirtualBox is a popular provider for developers.

First, some preparation. Install vagrant according to the instructions for your distribution. For Fedora, the command is as follows:

yum install 'vagrant*'  

This will install a number of packages. However, as we are installing this on Fedora, we will experience some problems. The Fedora Vagrant packages use libvirt as a VM provider rather than VirtualBox. This is useful in many cases, but in this case, we would like to use VirtualBox as a provider, which requires some extra steps on Fedora. If you use some other distribution, the case may be different.

First, add the VirtualBox repository to your Fedora installation. Then...

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