<DIV><p>Discover why Vagrant is a must-have tool for thousands of developers and ops engineers. This hands-on guide shows you how to use this open source software to build a virtual machine for any purpose—including a completely sandboxed, fully provisioned development environment right on your desktop.</p><p> Vagrant creator Mitchell Hashimoto shows you how to share a virtual machine image with members of your team, set up a separate virtualization for each project, and package virtual machines for use by others. This book covers the V1 (1.0.x) configuration syntax running on top of a V2 (1.1+) core, the most stable configuration format running on the latest core.</p><ul><li>Build a simple virtual machine with just two commands and no configuration </li><li>Create a development environment that closely resembles production </li><li>Automate software installation and management with shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet </li><li>Set up a network interface to access your virtual machine from any computer </li><li>Use your own editor and browser to develop and test your applications </li><li>Test complicated multi-machine clusters with a single Vagrantfile </li><li>Change Vagrant’s default operating system to match your production OS </li><li>Extend Vagrant features with plugins, including components you build yourself </li></ul></div>