Vagrant

It has been a while as I have been busy writing, I thought I would spend some of my freetime having a very quick play with Ansible AWX, which is the Open Source version of Ansible Tower. I created the following Vagrantfile to launch a CentOS 7 server; ...

I have a need to create both some Ubuntu and CentOS Vagrant boxes for a project I am working on. Normally I would have created them on my local machine, uploaded the artifacts to an Amazon S3 bucket and then published them using Atlas (formally Vagrant Cloud). ...

I am going to be playing with OpenStack over the next few weeks so I decided to create a Vagrant script which would bootstrap a working OpenStack Kilo installation using RedHat RDO. It uses my CentOS 7 Vagrant box and works with both VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion. ...

Vagrant allows developers to bring up local development machines in a controlled method using pre-built configuration files called boxes. Once a box has been installed on the developers local machine it can be powered on with the following command; vagrant up When the box is brought up it automatically provisions itself using a number of provisioners including Puppet, this means that the production deployment scripts can also be run on local development copies of the instances. ...