Creating the Vagrant project

First, we want to create a new project, so let's create a new folder called lemp-stack and initialize a new ubuntu/trusty64 Vagrant project within it by executing the following commands:

mkdir lemp-stack
cd lemp-stack
vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 ub

The easiest way for us to pull in the MySQL Puppet module is to simply add it as a git submodule to our project. In order to add a git submodule, our project needs to be a git repository, so let's initialize it as a git repository now to save time later:

git init

To make the virtual machine reflective of a real-world production server, instead of forwarding the web server port on the virtual machine to another port on our host machine, we will instead network the virtual machine. This means that we would be able to access the web server via port 80 (which is typical on a production web server) by connecting directly to the virtual machine.

In order to ensure a fixed IP address to which we can allocate a hostname...