On a side note, and to emphasize the usefulness of Vagrantfiles, I think their beauty resides in the fact that all it takes to make the environment available to other developers is to version them with your projects. Be curious and scan through the official documentation, it is well written and I am sure you will find something useful to you.
This is it for the options I mainly use I rarely need the rest. Reload your VM and try again: you should now get responses. Open a terminal on your host machine and type the following command:Ĭonfig. Port-forwardingįirst let's run a quick test. The easiest way to achieve this is probably using port-forwarding.
Using your host machine's editor to update files on your VM via shared folders is nice, but at some point you will want to admire your work in a browser, which implies for it to have access to your Vagrant box somehow. Let's look into accessing your VM from the host. The Vagrantfiles are written in Ruby, but no Ruby background is required (I don't know much about Ruby myself). I am not going to go through all the options here, only those I most often use. Just know that even if you destroy your box, files under /vagrant remain untouched.
I won't explain how to shutdown it just take a couple of minutes to read about the different available options in the doc, they are well explained. You can simply leave your box typing ctrl + d. This is the same Vagrantfile you have just updated: /vagrant is the folder that is shared between the host machine and the VM. Then, download Vagrant at (v1.7.2 at the time of writing), install.
If something goes wrong, you don't screw your machine: you destroy your VM instance and recreate it instead.įirst, download VirtualBox at ( "platform packages") and install it.
It also permits not to clutter up your computer with tons of different libraries and software that aren't used by every project. The other advantages I see is the fact that one can still use their editor of choice, as Vagrant folders are shared with the host by default. No surprises when pushing the code live, no more "it works on my machine". Ship a Vagrant configuration with each project, and every developer will work on the same environment locally. So what is actually the point? The main argument is the consistency of the environments among developers working on the same project, and more importantly that these environments reflect the production ones. As its support is shipped with Vagrant, we will use VirtualBox, but others exist. It relies on a VM provider, that deals with virtualization itself. Vagrant is a VM manager, in the sense that it reduces the management and the configuration of VMs to a handful of commands. All inside your own machine (which is then called the host). To understand what a Virtual Machine (VM) is, think of an emulator: you install it on your computer so you can then run software that believe they are running in the environment they were designed for. Vagrant greatly simplifies the use of Virtual Machines to spawn development environments in no time (well, it's probably more like no effort than time).
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