What you need for this book
As you proceed with this book, you will see a lot of features, solutions, and practical exercises that require technical tests. It's not often easy to test everything in the correct environment.
Many feel that preparing an environment is a waste of time, and they are right! To avoid it and concentrate on the content of the book, we'll use virtual machines. To make it fast and simple, we're going to use VirtualBox and Vagrant. If you are not acquainted with these tools, don't worry, we will show you how to use them here.
These tools will help you test everything very quickly (a few seconds/minutes). The advantages of both tools are:
- They are free
- They can run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
- Fast instance provisioning
To install ...
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