Chapter 3. Provisioning a Vagrant Environment
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Running basic shell commands
- Executing shell scripts in a Vagrantfile
- Provisioning with external shell scripts
Introduction
Starting a basic operating system environment from a Vagrantfile can be useful, but the real power of Vagrant is the ability to not only define operating parameters, but also to provision environments in a repeatable way. Vagrant implements a number of methods to install and configure software wherein each different method is referred to as a provisioner.
This chapter introduces and expands on the basic concept of provisioning a Vagrant environment. In the previous chapters, we have seen how to launch and configure basic environments, some of which included ...
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