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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789138054

Length 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Vagrant

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Alex Braunton

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Provisioning Vagrant with Chef

There are four different ways to use Chef to provision a Vagrant machine that Vagrant supports. This means that Chef has the most options in Vagrant when it comes to provisioning. The four options are as follows:

Chef Solo
Chef Zero
Chef Client
Chef Apply

In this chapter, we will be focusing on Chef Solo and Chef Client. This will give you a good mixture of provisioning on the host machine and the Vagrant machine.

Installing Chef on macOS

Before we can begin using Chef, we will first need to install it. We'll learn how to install Chef on the macOS operating system (the High Sierra 10.13 version).

We'll be installing the Chef DK (development kit), which includes all of the dependencies...

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Authors (1)

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Braunton

Alex Braunton is a web developer focusing on the LAMP stack by day and a technical tinkerer by night. He is passionate about all technological things and enjoys trying to build robots and home automation systems with his Raspberry Pi collection. Currently, he is focusing on sharpening his DevOps knowledge and experimenting with a range of technologies, such as serverless, virtual reality, and GraphQL. He also has a growing bonsai collection and constantly bores his wife and family about the art and history of bonsai.

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