Vagrant Quick Start: Virtualized Development Environments

An introduction to setting up and managing development server virtual machines using Vagrant, Virtual Box, and Linux

4.55 (593 reviews)

Udemy

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English

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Software Engineering

What you will learn

Create automatic, reliable, repeatable, easy to use, and versioned development environments

Write provisioning scripts to automatically setup Vagrant managed environments

Solve the development box setup problem

Description

This is an introductory course on Vagrant designed to show how to setup local development environments using Vagrant and related tools.

Course Outline

Introduction provides an overview for the course, cover the core concepts for Vagrant, how to get the course materials.

Quick Installation provides streamlined, fast instructions on how to setup Vagrant, VirtualBox, and other tools needed for the rest of the course on both Windows and Mac platforms. See the Bonus section for full installation processes.

Quick Start walks through the basics of using Vagrant and how to version control (using Git) a project using Vagrant.

Boxes covers how to find, manage and use Vagrant boxes.

Provisioning covers how to write shell provisioners to automatically install software when Vagrant first runs or on demand. Students write a real shell script to provision Tomcat in their Vagrant managed virtual machines.

Conclusion has some final thoughts on Vagrant.

Bonus! sections provide comprehensive, step-by-step installation processes for both Windows and Mac OS X.

Course Features

Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas in each major area or introduction of new concepts.

Screencasts provide a video of the instructor's computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated. There are several hours of screencat video content -- it makes up the vast majority of the course.

Several attachments throughout the course provide supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.

Content

Introduction

Welcome and Course Overview

Course Audience and Course Tips

What is Vagrant and Core Concepts

Quick Installation

Quick Installation Overview

Quick Install Process for Windows

Quick Install Process for Mac OS X

Vagrant Quick Start By Example

Quick Start Overview

Vagrant Project Setup

Vagrant Website and Documentation

Vagrant Project Initialization with Ubuntu 12 (Precise)

Running the Vagrant Project

Accessing the Vagrant Virtual Machine

Suspending, Stopping and Removing Vagrant Virtual Machines

Reloading Vagrant Virtual Machines

Vagrant Project Cleanup

Vagrant Boxes

Boxes Overview

Finding Boxes on Vagrantbox.es

Vagrantbox.es Example with CentOS 7

Hashicorp Atlas and Example with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Updating Quick Start Project with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Updating a Vagrant Virtual Machine

Saving Box Changes with Package

Updating the Quick Start Project with a Custom Box

Vagrant Provisioning

Provisioning Overview

Setup Provisioning

Updating a Vagrant Box

Bash Shell Provisioning Start

Updating Bash Shell Provisioning for Tomcat 8

Conclusion

Update GitHub with Project Changes

Review and Final Words

Bonus: Windows Full Install

Windows Full Install Overview

Git for Windows Install

Git for Windows Help

Git for Windows Configuration

Notepad++ Install

Notepad++ Git Integration

VirtualBox Installation

Vagrant Installation

Bonus: Mac OS X Full Installation

Mac OS X Full Installation Overview

Mac OS X Security Update

Mac OS X Terminal

Apple Git

Git Help

Git Configuration

TextMate 2 Installation

TextMate 2 Configuration

TextMate 2 Git Integration

Git Prompt on Mac OS X

VirtualBox Install

VirtualBox Extention Pack

Vagrant Installation

Bonus: Special Offers

Bonus: Exclusive Student Discounts

Reviews

Poa

September 8, 2023

this is really great. Great content and presentation. Good for beginner on Vagrant, learn a lot and superd!!

Valério

June 14, 2023

I would suggest to consider showing the usage of Ansible playbooks within Vagrant since it is simple to use and for sure will attract even more students to this course.

Simon

September 2, 2022

This is supposed to be a training for vagrant, but half the training (1h) is just explaining how to install things that any dev would be able to do easily. One of the most interesting part of vagrant (the provisioning) is just glossed over in 4 minutes.

Leonardo

April 14, 2022

I think would be good to start a project using vagrant, even if it is something simple, to see a little more detail.

Tony

October 16, 2021

Old courses (almost 6 years old). Explain too many things on Git, this is a Vagrant course, not a Git nor Github, neither a text editor course. Not worth the price.

Jeremy

September 7, 2021

to the point, great breakdown and step by step. Exactly what I needed to get started and keep learning.

Patrick

December 16, 2020

Poor organization. Very little overview material, only executes one command after another. It would have been better as a text tutorial users could follow along with at their own pace.

Gerardo

January 30, 2017

This has been a great introduction to Vagrant. A full walkthorugh for a beginner. I was trying to undertand, from a developer point of view, a simple what / how / when. Thanks Jason.

Krishnan

January 14, 2017

(+) Awesome course! a concise introduction to vagrant. (-) the instructor talks a bit fast and the quality of audio recording can be improved as well.

Sean

November 28, 2016

This course provides the basis of what someone needs to know to become effective and productive in using Vagrant. The instructor's presentation style is clear and the production value of the videos is high, which helped me stay engaged throughout. Some Vagrant commands and topics were not covered, but I consider the omission of most commands and topics to be acceptable of a "quick start" course. One topic that I wish had at least some cursory coverage is the creation and provisioning of Windows boxes; only the creation and provisioning of Linux boxes is covered. Despite that single shortcoming, I believe that this course will prove to be extremely useful to most students.

Quinton

November 5, 2016

I am self-taught when it comes to Vagrant, but this course has cleared up some of the muddy areas and shown me better ways to use vagrant. As is typical with this instructor, his course material is clear and concise and he explains everything at a nice pace that is easy to follow.

Charles

October 15, 2016

Great course to rapidly learn the basics of Vagrant. The instructor provides quick, 2-5 minute videos so that your attention space is maintained and only one learning objective is covered. Nicely structured and easy to watch. I thoroughly enjoyed the course. Quick, concise, and most importantly, practical.

Phil

August 29, 2016

Succinct. To the point. Easy to listen to. Great information. To be honest, I never understood the relationship of Vagrant to VirtualBox. Now I do! Thank you!

Claudia

August 2, 2016

Jason is an excellent instructor finding just the right set of details to include in his training to maximize our understanding of the topic. That is particularly true in this course!

Velma

July 20, 2016

This course may work well in a Mac OSX environment, but there are many many things that don't work for Windows. Some things I was able to get working through internet searches and playing around. Others I was not. It starts out going over Windows stuff and Mac stuff. But after install it drops off and just goes through Mac stuff. Some of it works on Windows, some not. Some key things I never got working. This is not appropriate at all for a beginner course where one should expect everything to work, to get oriented to the platform.

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