How it works

$ vagrant [command]

• init
• up / halt
• provision
• ssh
• suspend / resume
• destroy

More at vagrantup cli

Workflow

Provisioners

• Shell
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Chef
  • Chef zero
  • Berkshelf
  • Knife

Vagrant plugins

• vagrant-triggers:
  • On up
  • On destroy
  • On provision
• vagrant-managed-servers deploys on your private server.
• vagrant-digitalocean deploys on your instance at DigitalOcean.

Installation

• Virtual box
• Vagrant
• Chefdk
• Berkshelf

Example Vagrantfile

                    
Vagrant.configure (2) do |config|
    config.vm.box = 'ubuntu/trusty64'
    config.ssh.forward_agent = true
    config.vm.network 'forwarded_port', :guest => 80, :host => 8000

    config.vm.provider 'virtualbox' do |vb|
        vb.memory = '1024'
        vb.gui = false
    end
end
                    
                

Vagrant boxes

Atlas hashicorp

Shell provisioning

Inline:

                    
config.vm.provision 'shell', inline: <<-SHELL
  sudo apt−get update
  sudo apt−get install −y apache2
SHELL
                    
                

File:

                    
# Setup when the VM is first created
app.vm.provision 'shell', path: 'vagrant/setup.sh'

# This script is running every time we start the VM.
app.vm.provision 'shell', run: 'always', path: 'vagrant/start.sh'
                    
                

Provisioning

• Chef
• Berkself

Chef market

Berkshelf: Vagrantfile

                  
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  ...
  # Enable Berkshelf support
  config.berkshelf.enabled = true
  config.berkshelf.berksfile_path = './Berksfile'
  ...
end
                
              

Berkshelf: Berksfile

                  
source "https://supermarket.getchef.com"

cookbook 'apt'
cookbook 'git'
cookbook 'build-essential'
cookbook 'nodejs'
cookbook 'mysql'
cookbook 'rvm'
cookbook 'openssl'
cookbook 'app', path: './site-cookbooks/app'
                  
              

Chef: Vagrantfile

                  
...
config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
  chef.add recipe 'apt'
  chef.add recipe 'build−essential'
  chef.add recipe 'git'
  chef.add recipe 'nodejs'
  chef.add recipe 'app::mysql'
end
                  
              

Berkshelf: site-cookbooks

                    
site-cookbooks/app
  attributes
    list_of_attributes.rb
  recipes
    list_of_recipies.rb
  templates
    defaults_files
  Berksfile
  metadata.rb
                    
                

Berkshelf: example recipie

                    
mysql_service 'default' do
  port '3306'
  version '5.5'
  initial_root_password 'put_here_a_password'
  action :create
end
                    
                

An example

[Link to github] An example that sets up a Ruby on Rails development box based on Ubuntu with RVM, Ruby 2.1.0, MySQL 5.5.

Vagrant with docker

Multimedia services

[Link to github]: A box with Btsync, DYNDNS, SickRage, Couch potato and Deluge

Inspired in Freenas

Vagrantfile

                
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  ...

  # Ubuntu
  config.vm.box = 'ubuntu/trusty64'

  # Install latest docker
  config.vm.provision 'docker'

  # Setup the containers when the VM is first created
  config.vm.provision 'shell', path: 'vagrant/setup.sh'

  # Make sure the correct containers are running
  # every time we start the VM.
  config.vm.provision 'shell', run: 'always', path: 'vagrant/start.sh'
end
                
            

Setup.sh

                
# Stop and remove any existing containers
docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

# Run and link the containers
docker run -d -v /vagrant/ddclient/etc:/etc/ddclient --name dynamicdns \
  ryanfox1985/docker-dynamicdns
docker run -d -p 8888:8888 -v /vagrant/ddclient/etc:/etc/ddclient \
  --name sync bittorrent/sync
...
              
            

Start.sh

                
# Commands required to ensure correct docker containers are started when the vm is rebooted.

docker start dynamicdns
docker start sync
docker start sickrage
docker start couchpotato
docker start deluge