Vagrant Advanced Administration

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Since Vagrant is the industry leading virtual server provisioning tool, an in-depth knowledge of its advanced features is a fundamental requirement for skilled DevOps developers and operations staff. In this course, you will learn the inner workings of Vagrant, such as managing multi-machine environments and building development environments. This course also covers creating custom plug ins, using Vagrant Push, and working with Packer and Docker.

Target Audience
Software developers, operations staff, system administrators, DevOps engineers, managers, and anyone interested in learning the advanced features of Vagrant. A prior knowledge of Vagrant is essential.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Vagrant Advanced Administration

start the course

use Vagrant to create multiple virtual machines with different providers

identify the commands used when navigating through multiple virtual environments

configure and run a Vagrant cluster along with VirtualBox

create Linux virtual environments with Vagrant

apply Nginx to the LAMP stack for use with Vagrant shell provisioner

list and apply the steps to add MySQL for database persistence

complete a LAMP stack by adding PHP

define the role of custom Vagrant Plugins and how they are developed and deployed

use Ruby to develop a custom Vagrant plugin

apply the steps to successfully test a custom Vagrant plugin

describe and apply the steps to correctly package and deploy a custom Vagrant plugin

define the role of Vagrant Push and list the four current types of push strategies

create a preconfigured LAMP stack to be deployed by Vagrant Push

apply Vagrant Push and identify what steps are taking place in the Push process

define how Packer can be used to create images for platforms such as Amazon AWS and OpenStack

describe Packer builds and how they are run within Atlas

describe how AWS AMI images are persisted within Atlas

use Packer to create Vagrant boxes

use Vagrant with Puppet to automate configuration tasks with recipes

apply Vagrant configuration to nodes managed by Chef

use Ansible to configure nodes with Vagrant

describe how Vagrant can provision a Docker container

create and run a Docker container

run Vagrant and provision and run a Docker container

create a virtual environment in Vagrant and use Vagrant Push

Course Number:
os_vaad_a02_it_enus

Expertise Level
Expert