Vagrant: The essence of DevOps in a tool

Paul Stack http://www.paulstack.co.uk http://twitter.com/stack72 mail: paul@paulstack.co.uk

Vagrant: A tool even a drunk Irishman can use

About Me

Infrastructure Engineer for OpenTable

Reformed ASP.NET / C# Developer

DevOps Extremist

Conference Junkie

Agenda

First world problems for developers

What is Vagrant?

Demo Time

New Features

Packer

www.vagrantup.com

“Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments, sandboxed in a virtual machine.”

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Mitchell Hashimoto. “Vagrant: Up and Running.”

What is Vagrant?

Why is Vagrant awesome?

Development /Testing environments are in version control

So what is a vagrant box?

So what is a vagrant box?

Simple Commands

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

vagrant destroy

Demos….

Plugin Ecosystem

vagrant-aws

vagrant-rackspace

docker-provider

vagrant-openstack

vagrant-cucumber

More @ bit.ly/1lIDarz

Extensions In Recent Versions

vagrant share

vagrant global-status

vagrant ssh <unique id>

vagrant rdp

Where can I find out more?

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/

So where can I find some boxes?

www.vagrantcloud.com

How do I build these boxes?

Packer.io

Summary

Installing dependencies on developer machines is painful

Developing / testing against different non-production OS is dangerous

Vagrant is a way to sandbox production like environments

No more “Works on My Machine” excuse