Integrating Ansible with Vagrant
In this section, we will talk about integrating Ansible with Vagrant. Vagrant is a freely available infrastructure virtualization solution that is currently in use by countless organizations. It is provided free of charge via the kind folks at HashiCorp. A complete documentation for Vagrant can be found at https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/index.html.
To begin, we will assume you already have Vagrant up and running. If not, refer to the instructions located within HashiCorp's Vagrant Up website at https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/cli/up.html to get the initial setup completed. Once the initial setup of Vagrant has been completed, we can take a look at how to leverage Ansible within Vagrant.
Leveraging Ansible for Vagrant provisioning
Ansible's playbook implementation can be used to provision Vagrant machines through the Ansible provider. Providers in Vagrant allow the Vagrant user to specify a configuration management solution that will be leveraged to automate...
