Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook

Chapter 5. Networked Vagrant Environments

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating a local network
• Defining a multimachine environment
• Specifying the order of machine provisioners
• Creating clusters of Vagrant machines

Introduction

Standalone Vagrant environments can meet the needs of a variety of use cases. A common case would be using Vagrant to facilitate web and application development. In this case, forwarding the Vagrant guest web server port (usually port 80) to a port on the localhost would allow applications hosted on the web server to be accessed through a localhost address. (For example, opening http://localhost:8080 in a browser.)

The port forwarding model might not work well for a few use cases. For example:

• Situations ...