1. Vagrant: The ability to create
production environments
from day 1 of development
Paul Stack
http://www.paulstack.co.uk
http://twitter.com/stack72
mail: ndc-london@paulstack.co.uk

2. About Me
Develop software for OpenTable / toptable
DevOps Extremist
Conference Junkie

3. Vagrant: F**king Rocks!

4. Agenda
First world problems for developers
What is Vagrant?
Demo Time

8. What is Vagrant?
“Vagrant is a tool for building complete development
environments, sandboxed in a virtual machine.”
!
Mitchell Hashimoto. “Vagrant: Up and Running.”

9. Why is Vagrant awesome?
Development environments are in VCS

10. Simple Commands
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
vagrant destroy

11. Demo 1: A Local
development environment
for mono

12. Demo 2: Using Vagrant as a
testing environment

13. Vagrant isn’t just for
developers

14. Demo 3: Ubuntu
Experimentation

15. Demo 4: A cluster of
ElasticSearch Instances

16. Demo 5: A Simple Windows
2008R2 VM

17. Plugin Ecosystem
vagrant-aws
vagrant-rackspace
docker-provider
vagrant-openstack
vagrant-cucumber
More @ http://stack72.me/vagrant-plugins

19. Packer.io

20. Summary
Installing dependencies on developer machines is
painful
Developing / testing against different non-production
OS is dangerous
Vagrant is a way to sandbox production like
environments
No more “Works on My Machine” excuse