Vagrant can aid businesses and developers by creating development environments that mirror production. This talk discusses the basics of Vagrant, real world stories, and how it can be used in various projects. Originally given at MeetMagentoNY 2014

1. Saving Time and
Money With Vagrant
September 23, 2014
@timothybroder

2. Who am I?
Tim Broder
Technical Director
Alexander Interactive
@timothybroder
http://timbroder.com

3. Agenda
What is Vagrant?
Vagrant init
Key Takeaways

4. Sound Familiar?

5. Sound Familiar?
“I can’t reproduce it locally”
“Oh, that’s not the right version”
“Ok, so leave a day or so to setup the project”

6. Remove frustration.
Technology can help.

7. What is Vagrant?
An Open
Source tool for
building and
distributing
development
environments

8. WTF Does That Mean?
Vagrant gives
you unified
development
environments
that are easily
distributable

9. Why do you care?
• Match the production stack
• Test a server config
• Test a deploy script
• SETUP. THE. PROJECT.

10. Who benefits?
• Solo Developers
• Startups
• Agencies
• Large Scale Businesses

11. vagrant init

12. vagrant init

13. Library conflicts

14. Multiple projects.

15. Complex stacks

16. Starting Out
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox
•VMWare

17. Box?

18. Statement here, use sentences
don’t forget the period.

19. Dev Locally. Run on “Prodish”
1. Project files
mapped to /vagrant
2. Port Forwarding:
guest, local
3. Profit

20. Basic Commands
• vagrant up
• vagrant halt
• vagrant reload
• vagrant ssh

21. Provisioning
• Chef
• Puppet
• Docker
• Ansible
• Salt

22. Box Distribution
• VagrantFile in source control
• Vagrant package
•Box on server

23. Remote Access
• vagrant share
• http://scorching-moose-9862.vagrantshare.com
• http or ssh access

24. Key Takeaways RECAP

25. Test and deploy
at scale.

26. Infrastructure
as Code.

27. Setup the
environment anywhere.

28. Thank you!
• http://by.ai/vagranttalk
• @timothybroder
• http://timbroder.com