Vagrant - A hands-on course

Name: Vagrant - A hands-on course
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Use Vagrant to spin Virtual Machines, write Vagrantfiles and understand usage of Vagrant boxes and plugins

Created byMohit Kumar, Mohit Kumar

Last updated 1/2025

English

What you'll learn

Understand the usage of Vagrant
Install Vagrant on Linux, Windows or MAC
Spin up single or multiple virtual machines with Vagrant with multiple providers
Use Vagrant boxes and plugins
Push Vagrant boxes
Write Vagrantfiles
Share Vagrantfiles on Git
Kubernetes Cluster using Vagrant

Course content

9 sections • 47 lectures • 2h 40m total length

Introduction to this course1:44
Why learn Vagrant?0:33
Learning objectives & How to get best out of this course.1:35
Sections explained1:05
Supporting Documentation0:02
(optional) Intro Video - Why enroll in this course1:22

Vagrant command cheat sheet0:48
Understanding Vagrantfile3:59
In this lecture you are going to understand how to write a Vagrantfile from very basics.
Setting up a VM with Vagrant4:41
In this video you are going to understand the following concepts and command
vagrant validate - Validate your Vagrantfile
vagrant up - Used to spin up a VM
vagrant ssh - To connect to your VM
vagrant halt - To switch off your VM
vagrant destroy - To destroy the VM
Vagrant virtual machine details and ssh4:51
This video lecture is about the .vagrant directory which contains all the configuration files for Vagrant.
In this command you will learn how to use the commands

vagrant ssh-config
ssh -i <private_key> user@hostname -p port
Vagrant boxes6:24
In this video you will understand the various vagrant boxes commands.

vagrant box add
vagrant box update
vagrant box list
vagrant box prune
vagrant box remove
Understanding VM.config parameters5:11
In this video you will understand how to set the vm.properties
VM Management with Vagrant3:10
In this video you will understand the commands required to manage a VM
vagrant global-status
vagrant up <vm id>
vagrant halt <vm id>
vagrant suspend <vm id>
vagrant resume <vm id>
vagrant port
VM Snapshots6:27
In this video you would learn how to take snapshots and manage them.

The commands related to this video are as follows

vagrant snapshot save <snapshot name>

To Install nginx on Centos7 use the following method

Switch user as root i.e. su -root
Provide the password <vagrant>
yum -y update && yum -y install epel-release
yum -y install nginx
systemctl status nginx
systemctl start nginx
Check the configuration for nginx by cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Go to the root directory, generally, /usr/share/nginx/html
Update the index.html file with desired configuration
Provision the VM with inline script4:13
Provisioning with a file4:23
Provisioning with Ansible5:44
Vagrant upload1:39
Use the command to upload files from the host to guest

vagrant upload <source file in the host machine> <destination filename in the guest machine>
Syncing files5:18

Multiple VM with Vagrant4:52
Working with multiple VMs3:13
Vagrant with Docker - Pulling an Image and Running the container4:37
Vagrant with Docker - Building an Image2:50
Multiple VMs with Vagrant Programmatically (Using a loop)5:01
Vagrant share - using ngrok7:51
I have tested vagrant share plugin in 2.3.4 version. However, it throws an error and is not working. Hence, I have showed a way to use ngrok to achieve the same functionality.

Requirements

No programming experience required
Begineer level understanding of computing required

Description

Welcome to this hands-on course on Vagrant!!

Suited for :

DevOps Engineers
Computing Professionals
Computer science students
Technocrats

A complete hands-on course on Vagrant
Follow along – Set up your system and finish the exercises

After this course you would understand

Concepts related to Virtualization
What is Vagrant
What are various components of Vagrant
Vagrant workflow
Impact of Vagrant
Concepts related to VM management

You would be able to

Spin up a VM with VirtualBox
Download and Install VirtualBox and Vagrant
Write Vagrantfile for single and multiple VMs
Manage VMs using Vagrant

What is Vagrant?

Vagrant solves the problem of inconsistent development environments.
When different team members are working on a project, they may be using different operating systems, software versions, and configurations. This can lead to compatibility issues and make it difficult to reproduce bugs and test new features.
Vagrant addresses this issue by providing a way to create and manage virtual development environments that are identical for all team members. This eliminates compatibility issues and makes it easy to reproduce bugs and test new features.
Vagrant also simplifies the process of setting up new development environments, which can be time-consuming and error-prone when done manually.
By using Vagrant, developers can quickly spin up a new development environment with the necessary software and dependencies already configured, streamlining the development process.

Updated - Jan 2025

Who this course is for:

Systems Engineers and professional who want to learn more about DevOps tools
Systems Engineer working in Virtualized environments

Vagrant - A hands-on course

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Course content

Introduction6 lectures • 6min

Virtualization 1015 lectures • 12min

Setting up your system7 lectures • 21min

Understanding Vagrant3 lectures • 7min

Hands-on Excercises with Vagrant13 lectures • 57min

Advance Topics6 lectures • 28min

Working with Other providers4 lectures • 15min

Hands on Projects1 lecture • 14min

Conclusion2 lectures • 1min

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