See also DevOps

Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool, lets you run each project in its own dedicated virtual environment.

Vagrant provides a command-line interface which allows you to define, control containers/virtual machines that represent a repeatable built and configured application

With Vagrant:

• The development environment config can accurately mimic the production environment.
• Integrated provisioning tools such as Puppet and Chef allow you to store conguration in a standard format, which can also be used to update production environments.
• Each project is separate (isolated ) virtualized environment
• New team members can be on-boarded to new projects with an automated script

git clone && vagrant up.

• the reproducible environment can be shred with colleagues as a development environment.
• the same binary moves to test and ideally finally production

Configuration

Vagrant-controlled virtual machine, include:

• Base installations
• Port forwarding
• Folder mapping
• Networking

Download and install a base configuration

vagrant init precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

Links and Reference

• Vagrant Home