Vagrant for Development

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Agenda

What is Vagrant?

Why Vagrant

Env Management

Vagrant for Java

Vagrant for CI

What is Vagrant?

Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments

Virtual Machine, not Linux Container

VirtualBox based

Developed by Ruby

Why Vagrant?Isolation, Repeatable(reuse), Reliable

development environment unified

Per project per VM by Vagrantfile

Distribute VM between team members

Say goodbye to "works on my machine" bugs

DevOps friendly

Env Management

Shell

Puppet

Chef

Jenv

Install tools manually

Vagrant for Java

jenv install

Maven repository sync: config.vm.synced_folder "~/.m2", "/home/vagrant/.m2"

Tools: Tomcat, Maven etc

Exec Maven Plugin to operate vagrant

Vagrant for CI

Isolated VM for project

Mock less

Env maintain easy

Maven with Vagrant support

Vagrant InstallInstall VirtualBox

Install Vagrant

Install boxes: vagrant box install box_name http://url

Init Vagrant: vagrant init box_name

Start VM: vagrant up

VM Access: Vagrant ssh

Stop VM: vagrant halt

Destroy VM: vagrant destroy

Package VM: vagrant package —output xxx.box

Boxes

lucid: Ubuntu 10.4

Precise: Ubuntu 12.4

CentOS 6.4

Vagrant Practice

NetDriver to store box file

vagrant.json

network: private network

hostname: config.vm.hostname=“xxxx"

FAQ