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Vagrant: Up and Running: Create and Manage Virtualized Development Environments 1st Edition

by Mitchell Hashimoto (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
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Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose―including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.

Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. This book covers the V1 (1.0.x) configuration syntax running on top of a V2 (1.1+) core, the most stable configuration format running on the latest core.

  • Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configuration
  • Create a development environment that closely resembles production
  • Automate software installation and management with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet
  • Set up a network interface to access your virtual machine from any computer
  • Use your own editor and browser to develop and test your applications
  • Test complicated multi-machine clusters with a single Vagrantfile
  • Change Vagrant’s default operating system to match your production OS
  • Extend Vagrant features with plugins, including components you build yourself

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    978-1449335830
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  4. Publisher
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  5. Publication date
    July 9, 2013
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 0.38 x 9.19 inches
  8. Print length
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Q&A with Mitchell Hashimoto, author of "Vagrant: Up and Running"

Q. Why is your book timely-- what makes it important right now?

A. Vagrant is currently at a turning point where it is going from just being a cool tool to being an essential tool. Vagrant simply offers the best experience for working with development environments and configuration management tools.

On a larger scale, DevOps is entering the main stream as a best practice nowadays, and Vagrant sits firmly in the toolkit of must-have DevOps tools. Vagrant is effectively synonymous with DevOps to a certain degree.

Q. What information do you hope that readers of your book will walk away with?

A. As the book is targeted at newcomers to Vagrant, I would hope that readers will walk away with a solid understanding of the problems that Vagrant solves, and why those problems exist. The actual usage of the tool is far less important to me than the identification of bottlenecks in workflow and process that Vagrant alleviates.

Q. What's the most exciting thing happening in your space?

A. The push to make ops easier, definitely. Over the past 5 years we've seen various tools and practices emerge which aim to lower the barrier to entry to effectively running web applications. Vagrant helps push this down and I'm working on more tools to just that, as are many others.

About the Author

Mitchell Hashimoto is a passionate engineer, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. Mitchell has been creating and contributing to open source software for almost a decade. He has spoken at dozens of conferences about his work, such as VelocityConf, OSCON, FOSDEM, and more. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company whose goal is to make the best DevOps tools in the world, including Vagrant. Prior to HashiCorp, Mitchell spent five years as a web developer and another four as an operations engineer.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (July 9, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 155 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449335837
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449335830
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.38 x 9.19 inches
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Paul W. Joireman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great info but quickly out of date
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
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The book is full of useful information and it is well explained and easy to read. The author never dives too deeply into Vagrant but the focus is to explain what it provides you with not exactly how it is done under the hood.

Unfortunately with a product like Vagrant under rapid development books like these can be quickly outdated and over-taken by new syntax which might cause confusion if you are using the Vagrant version that differs from what the book is describing. The code should still work but the documentation on the vagrantup website might differ from the book examples.

The 'Tao of Vagrant' was referenced perhaps a little more than absolutely necessary.
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Jean-Pierre
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Starting Point (Needs updates)
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2014
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This is a perfect primer and I wish I had sprung the cash to buy this instead of trying to fumble through the online documentation. The only issue I have with this book is that it's not up to date. With version two of the Vagrant API you'll have to adjust many of the commands in the book to the new version which kind of makes the examples moot. All that aside the theoretical and philosophical basis for this vm provisioner is very clearly explained in this book. Definitely worth buying on Kindle, but I hope they update the content soon.
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David Lee Crites
3.0 out of 5 stars good book; some examples are out-of-date
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015
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When you go to the author's site, and you click on the link, on the author's site, you might anticipate the text would be totally accurate and up-to-date.

It is a good overview -- more complete than the web site, but some of the examples and commands are out-dated. I am having to go through both the web site and the book, making notes about the "correct" commands. This was not a complete waste of money, but it certainly was not the "valuable resource" I was hoping for.

I contribute to the open source projects I use and like. I guess this was my contribution to Vagrant.

Don't get me wrong about Vagrant. I still am quite happy with what it is doing for me! I just wish the book was up-to-date.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016
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This book is not only an excellent introduction to Vagrant, but is also an in-depth guide to every feature, much better than what's on the Vagrant website. And it includes a thorough guide to creating your own plugins and how they work. Everyone who uses Vagrant should skip the documentation and read this book instead.
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David Sassen
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book but the Internet will probably help you out just as much
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
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I very much enjoyed this book - was a great help at getting Vagrant set up.

Here's the problem I have with it - it's very similar to the Vagrant "Getting Started" tutorial on their website (http://docs.vagrantup.com), written by the same person. If you don't mind paying for information that you can realistically get on the Internet (I was fine with it), then this is a good book. Hard to fault Vagrant for having documentation that's *too* good, honestly. :)
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John Hess
3.0 out of 5 stars Well written - but from 2013
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016
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Well written, clear and concise - however is from 2013 - which in the computer world is crazy out of date. The first think I looked up was a configuration option - the book had v1 options, which are different from the v2 options. Specifically, it has config.vm.host_name which has now been updated to config.vs.hostname - not a big difference, but the first one gives an error at vagrant up and the second one works.
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Lou mauget
5.0 out of 5 stars Within a few hours I felt comfortable with Vagrant
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015
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A week ago I knew nothing about Vagrant. I looked for a book on Vagrant, finding this one. The reviews were mostly positive. Amazon let me use the book on trial basis for my tablet Kindle application. What did I have to lose? Within a few hours I felt comfortable with Vagrant, especially in conjunction with provisioning. I used the book several times as a provisioning reference-by-example. A slight disappointment is that I'd like so see an edition with a Docker provisioning chapter. In the end, I now will actually buy the book so I can see it on my development machine with unlimited availability. It was smart of Amazon, or the publisher, to make this book available on a trial basis. I perhaps may not have purchased it otherwise.
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T. S. Marsh
4.0 out of 5 stars It did get me up and running
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013
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This book gave me the same information in about an hour that I would have otherwise gained by hacking about for a day or two. Big win, but thats not enough to be useful. Had the book had extended sections on how to get chef and puppet going, and more importantly what problems you can expect its would have save me another couple of days.
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Anuradha Deshpande
1.0 out of 5 stars It's product documentation.
Reviewed in India on August 7, 2019
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It's product documentation nothing more.
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Wagner Bianchi
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but need to be updated
Reviewed in Brazil on June 30, 2014
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Regardless of need to be updated due to consider the first version of the Vagrantfile syntax, this book was quickly read whithin a weekend. If you need to learn the basics of Vagrant, this book is well recommended since it will train you to automate all the teste environment that can be raised in one command (vagrant up).
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Golo Roden
5.0 out of 5 stars Kompakt, auf den Punkt und flüssig zu lesen
Reviewed in Germany on September 22, 2013
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Vor diesem Buch hatte ich eine ungefähre Vorstellung davon, wofür Vagrant überhaupt gut ist. Nach diesem Buch fühle ich mich nun sehr gut gerüstet, und habe (glaube ich) einen guten Überblick zu dem Thema.

Das Buch ist ausgesprochen verständlich geschrieben, folgt einem logischen und sinnvollen roten Faden und steigt nach und nach in die Konzepte und Ideen von Vagrant ein: Beginnt man zunächst mit dem Aufsetzen einer neuen virtuellen Maschine, geht es danach um deren Fernsteuerung, deren Konfiguration und zu guter letzt um die Erweiterbarkeit von Vagrant.

Besonders gut hat mir gefallen, dass das Buch kompakt ist und seinen Inhalt auf den Punkt bringt: Kein unnötiges Blabla, sondern eine gute Einführung mit einem Blick über den Tellerrand, die nicht künstlich aufgeblasen wurde, nur damit man ein Buch mit mehr als 130 Seiten verkaufen kann. Weniger ist mehr :-).

Insofern kann ich das Buch nur jedem ans Herz legen, der sich mit Vagrant beschäftigen möchte. Großes Lob und Kompliment an Autor und Verlag für eine wirklich ausgezeichnete Leistung!
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5.0 out of 5 stars good introduction
Reviewed in France on June 18, 2013
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short and to the point, it uses the v1 configuration, but the default Vagrantfile allows to find easily the v2 configuration.
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pidah
5.0 out of 5 stars Up Vagrant!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2013
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I must confess I arrived to the vagrant party pretty late. But, the cool thing about vagrant, is you can get up and running really quickly, making it an ideal tool in the delivery process for the seasoned and uninitiated alike.
After using vagrant for a while, I wanted to do more with it, but didn't have the time to figure it out. So when Mitchell Hashimoto released Vagrant Up, I was curious. I grabbed the kindle copy, and I am glad to say, I wasn't disappointed. Chapter 7 where he delves into plugin development was the real seller for me. Within a couple of hours, I had written a plugin and got me thinking about other possibilities. Even though a reasonable knowledge of ruby is required, the author goes over the internals with an easy-going style. I definitely recommend this book to anyone involved with DevOps, automation or the software delivery process.
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