Its freely available for mac operating system. The virtualization platform best suited for vagrant is VirtualBox. This is because, both the virtualization component and the vagrant itself can be installed by using standard installers officially provided. Installing Vagrant in MAC OS X is pretty simple. Read: What is Vagrant and what is it used for?
If you are completely new to Vagrant then i recommend reading the below article to get some basics. In this article, we we will be walking throught the steps to install Vagrant on Mac OS X(Am using EI Captain 10.11.4 for this example). The most popular virtualization platform of choice for vagrant is VirtualBox. Vagrant takes care of creating, managing, and destroying your development environment. Using vagrant, you can define all aspects of your development environment, which can then be used for creating virtual machines. When finished, you can stop the Virtual Machine with vagrant halt or delete it completely with vagrant destroy.Vagrant is basically a layer on top of your virtualization platform. Once the box has started, you can connect to it via ssh by running vagrant ssh. For example to start with a plain Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Virtual Machine, just run vagrant init ubuntu/xenial64 to create the Vagrantfile and then start the boot process by running vagrant up. You can create a new Vagrant box using the vagrant init command. Vagrant’s focus is in setting up Virtual Machines in a repeatable way that makes it quicker for Developers to get started on a project without needing to spend time configuring systems.ĭocker builds immutable containers that are portable and can be combined in complex systems in a predictable way with a focus more on the needs of systems operating at scale. You’ll also need to be familiar with using the command line, if you’re not yet, you should check out Wes Bos’ Command Line Power User series.īoth Vagrant and Docker are tools that take advantage of similar concepts and technologies with cross-over in their use. Both are simply a case of downloading the file and clicking to install. To setup a simple Vagrant box for Ansible experiments, we first need to make sure we have both VirtualBox and Vagrant installed.
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