Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Appendix C. Using Docker with Vagrant

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Running Docker containers with Vagrant
• Mixed environments – the Docker provisioner

Introduction

The recipes in this book are focused mainly on the management and configuration of virtual machines (runtime environments that mimic the operation of entire operating systems). In actual use and operation of a virtual machine, however, there are typically only a few processes running in the machine that are of importance to development and deployment. For example, the deployment of web applications often requires the deployment of a web server (and perhaps some middleware applications), but a virtual machine with a full operating system will also run several processes ...