Getting Started with Vagrant

Learn how Vagrant, a tool for creating portable development environments, can help you:

• Easily setup a local development environment
• Match your local development environment to production and avoid surprises during deployment.
• Share development environments with team members and get new team members up and running in record time.
• Easily deploy code by using providers and provisioners.

Quick Start – Using Vagrant with WordPress

• Install VirtualBox
• Install Vagrant
• Install the Vagrant Hosts Updater plugin by running vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater from the command line
• Install the Vagrant Triggers plugin by running vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers from the command line
• Clone the Varying Vagrant Vagrants (aka VVV) repository by running git clone https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV.git from the command line
• From the root of the VVV repository, run vagrant up from the command line
• Visit vvv.dev in your browser and start working!

Customizing VVV

• Create a separate project repository using the auto site setup and clone the repo into the VVV /www directory.
• Create new projects from the command line with the VVV Site Wizard

Resources

• Vagrant Documentation
• Vagrant Plugins
• WordPress Vagrant Projects

Vagrant Boxes

• Vagrant Boxes
• Vagrant Cloud

Providers

• VirtualBox
• VMWare
• Amazon Web Services

Provisioners

• Shell Scripts
• Puppet
• Chef
• Ansible
• Docker
• SaltStack

Provisioning Tools

• Puphpet
• VeeWee

Tutorials

• The Basics of Working with Vagrant and WordPress

Glossary

• Guest - The virtual machine
• Host - The physical machine
• Provision - Install the required software and configure the machine for use

Getting Started with Vagrant is a post by Micah.