You're reading from Infrastructure as Code Cookbook Automate complex infrastructures

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786464910

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Terraform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Pierre Pomès

Stephane Jourdan

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Vagrant Development Environments FREE CHAPTER

2. Provisioning IaaS with Terraform

3. Going Further with Terraform

4. Automating Complete Infrastructures with Terraform

5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init

6. Fundamentals of Managing Servers with Chef and Puppet

7. Testing and Writing Better Infrastructure Code with Chef and Puppet

8. Maintaining Systems Using Chef and Puppet

9. Working with Docker

10. Maintaining Docker Containers

Index

Adding an Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS) Vagrant box

Vagrant boxes are referred to by their names, usually following the username/boxname naming scheme. A 64-bits Precise box released by Ubuntu will be named ubuntu/precise64 while the centos/7 box will always be the latest CentOS 7 official box.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

A working Vagrant installation using the free and open source Virtualbox hypervisor
An Internet connection

How to do it…

Open a terminal and type the following code:

$ vagrant box add ubuntu/xenial64
==> box: Loading metadata for box 'ubuntu/xenial64'
    box: URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/xenial64
==> box: Adding box 'ubuntu/xenial64' (v20160815.0.0) for provider: virtualbox
    box: Downloading: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64/versions/20160815.0.0/providers/virtualbox.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'ubuntu/xenial64' (v20160815.0.0) for 'virtualbox'!

How it works…

Vagrant knows where to look for the latest version for the requested box on the Atlas service and automatically downloads it over the Internet. All boxes are stored by default in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes.

There's more…

If you're interested in creating your own base Vagrant boxes, refer to Packer (https://www.packer.io/) and the Chef Bento project (http://chef.github.io/bento/).