Vagrant
Vagrant builds and configures development VMs from a Vagrantfile. It starts them on a provider such as VirtualBox and can provision them with Ansible.
Key concepts #
- Box: the base VM image.
- Provider: the hypervisor that runs the VM.
- Provisioner: configures the VM after it boots.
Learn it #
See Ansible and Vagrant to build a Kubernetes cluster.
Install it with Install Vagrant and VirtualBox.
More tutorials that use Vagrant
Related tutorials
- Ansible Tutorials
Install Vagrant and VirtualBox: Create Local Virtual Machines as Code
Install VirtualBox and Vagrant, write a Vagrantfile for a multi-VM lab with private networking and provisioning, and use the daily commands to manage it.
AWS Compute
AWS AMI
AWS AMI, or Amazon Machine Image, is a pre-configured virtual machine image used to create and launch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances
- Kubernetes Tutorials
Kubernetes Cluster using Vagrant and Ansible with Containerd (in 3 minutes)
Tutorial and full source code explaining how to create a Kubernetes cluster with Ansible and Vagrant for local development under 3 minutes.