Hands-On Vagrant

1. Introduction

In January 2010, Mitchell Hashimoto started it as a personal project and released the first version in March 2010. Engine Yard announced to sponsor the Vagrant project in October 2010. In March 2012, the first stable version “Vagrant 1.0” was released. In November 2012, an organization “HashiCorp” by Mitchell came to give the full attention and improvement in the development of Vagrant. Nowadays Hashi is focusing to develop the e-commerce support and offers professional training support for the Vagrant.

A Vagrant is a freeware application/tool for building and developing a portable environment. Mostly the latest release and newest tools are tested by a test environment. It is, the less time consuming in redeveloping the Operating System. A Vagrant is really tied to VirtualBox to manage and handle the Virtualization. A Vagrant takes actions as the dominant configuration for deploying/handling many reproducible virtual environments with the identical configuration.

It plays the role just like a tool in the Ubuntu Linux environment to set up a wide-ranging virtual improvement environment that is generally quoted to as a VDE. It reduces the amount of time spent needed to rebuild the Operating System as a core configuration for end user deeds. It also allows the easy manageability VDEs by means of identical configuration. Installation of VirtualBox at the same period is important and basic requirements being its central configuration built into the main Vagrant product.

To set up and configure, an online Linux Server is needed with a proper and suitable IP address and a method for connecting it. GoDaddy was recommended Virtual Private Server, at the time of start up for newer users, or a full applicable Server for taking total control. Some different types of SSH client as Google, PuTTY (Windows) or Terminal (Mac) is needed for connecting the Server.