Vagrant – Development Environments

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. It provides a simple workflow for creating reproducible development environments using providers like VirtualBox, VMware, and Docker.

Key Features

• Reproducible: Consistent environments across team
• Multi-Provider: VirtualBox, VMware, Docker, AWS
• Provisioners: Shell, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Synced Folders: Shared files between host and guest
• Networking: Port forwarding and private networks

Installation

Install Vagrant:

wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install vagrant

Usage Examples

Vagrantfile configuration:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/jammy64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
  config.vm.synced_folder "./code", "/var/www"
  
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.memory = "2048"
    vb.cpus = 2
  end
  
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "apt update && apt install -y nginx"
end

Benefits

Vagrant eliminates “works on my machine” problems. Developers share identical environments, reducing setup time and debugging effort.

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