Vagrant Archives

Developer Tools

Using Vagrant to Deploy to a Remote Hyper-V Host

My Vagrant/Hyper-V combo worked well, but had two problems: wifi going out, and the large footprint of Vangrant/Chef on a Windows OS.

Web Apps

Testing Web Apps Developed via Vagrant Using Capybara

Tips to for developing and testing web apps over Vagrant using the Capybara testing framework.

Technical Practices

Why Vagrant? – Preventing Deployment Issues from Day One with a Virtual Machine

Vagrant virtual machines help developers prevent deployment issues by allowing them to write code in production-like environments.

DevOps & System Admin.

Constructing a Vagrant Cluster for Chef Development

Integrating Chef server with a Vagrant cluster provides an easy method to develop Chef configurations for new production server clusters.

DevOps & System Admin.

Building a Virtual Appliance – Repeatably

In order to easily distribute a complicated piece of software, we created a virtual machine appliance. We developed an automated and modular build process.

DevOps & System Admin.

Using Vagrant AWS with Capistrano

In switching my Vagrant workflow from VirtualBox to AWS, I ran into a problem; and in solving it, I discovered a better way to integrate Vagrant with Capistrano.

DevOps & System Admin.

Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet

If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.

DevOps & System Admin.

From Imperative to Declarative System Configuration with Puppet

Start transitioning from imperative to declarative thinking through the use of Puppet's Exec resource type.