Vagrant Up! Comprehensive development system automation

Vagrant Up! Comprehensive development system automation, available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.7, with 46 lectures, 6 quizzes, based on 857 reviews, and has 7105 subscribers.

You will learn about Create automatic, reliable, repeatable, easy to use, and versioned development environments Write provisioning scripts to automatically setup Vagrant managed environments Solve the development box setup problem This course is ideal for individuals who are Software Engineers, developers, and programmers or DevOps, IT Operations, Development Support or Freelancers or IT Managers or Anyone who hates It works on my machine! It is particularly useful for Software Engineers, developers, and programmers or DevOps, IT Operations, Development Support or Freelancers or IT Managers or Anyone who hates It works on my machine!.

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Summary

Title: Vagrant Up! Comprehensive development system automation

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.7

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Quizzes: 6

Number of Published Lectures: 46

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 52

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 52

Original Price: $129.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create automatic, reliable, repeatable, easy to use, and versioned development environments

Write provisioning scripts to automatically setup Vagrant managed environments

Solve the development box setup problem

Who Should Attend

Software Engineers, developers, and programmers

DevOps, IT Operations, Development Support

Freelancers

IT Managers

Anyone who hates It works on my machine!

Target Audiences

Software Engineers, developers, and programmers

DevOps, IT Operations, Development Support

Freelancers

IT Managers

Anyone who hates It works on my machine!

Vagrant UP

This is a comprehensive course designed to show how to setup local development environments using Vagrant and related tools.

Just Updated: May 25, 2015! New bonus section added (Chef Solo).

Course Outline

Introduction provides an overview for the course, cover the core concepts for Vagrant, how to get the course materials.

Installation provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup Vagrant, VirtualBox, and other tools needed for the rest of the course on both Windows and Mac platforms.

Getting Started walks through the basics of using Vagrant and how to version control (using Git) a project using Vagrant.

Boxes covers how to find, manage and use Vagrant boxes.

Plugins walks through finding, using and managing plugins in Vagrant in order to extend Vagrant’s functionality.

Provisioning covers how to write file and shell provisioners to automatically install software when Vagrant first runs or on demand. After learning the basics of provisioning, this section ends with a full-fledged LAMP-stack provisioned.

Multiple Virtual Machines walks through using Vagrant with a multiple VM configuration, when we dissect the LAMP stack in the previous section and create two virtual machine definitions within one configuration file.

Conclusion has some final thoughts on Vagrant and provides links to resources for additional learning.

Bonus! sections feature advanced topics like creating custom Vagrant boxes and using the Chef Solo provisioner.

Course Features

Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas in each major area or introduction of new concepts.

Screencasts provide a video of the instructor’s computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated. There are several hours of screencat video content it makes up the vast majority of the course. Any command line based screencast will include a command listing in the lecture downloads.

Several attachments throughout the course provide supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction and Overview

Lecture 2: Core Concepts

Lecture 3: Course Materials

Chapter 2: Installation

Lecture 1: Installation Overview

Lecture 2: Windows Installation

Lecture 3: Mac OS X Installation

Chapter 3: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Quick Start

Lecture 2: Version Control Vagrant Projects

Lecture 3: Getting Started Command Listing

Chapter 4: Boxes

Lecture 1: Managing Boxes

Lecture 2: Finding More Boxes

Lecture 3: Boxes Command Listing

Chapter 5: Plugins

Lecture 1: Using Plugins

Lecture 2: Plugins Command Listing

Chapter 6: Provisioning

Lecture 1: Provisioning Introduction

Lecture 2: Manual baked Provisioning

Lecture 3: File Provisioner

Lecture 4: Shell Provisioner

Lecture 5: LAMP Stack Provisioning Example, Part 1

Lecture 6: LAMP Stack Provisioning Example, Part 2

Lecture 7: Provisioning Command Listing

Chapter 7: Multiple Virtual Machines

Lecture 1: Provisioning and Working with Multiple Virtual Machines

Lecture 2: Multiple VMs Command Listing

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Conclusion

Lecture 2: Resources

Chapter 9: Bonus! Creating Custom Boxes for Vagrant

Lecture 1: Introduction to Custom Boxes

Lecture 2: Acquire OS Image

Lecture 3: VirtualBox Setup and OS Installation

Lecture 4: Vagrant Customizations, Part 1

Lecture 5: Vagrant Customizations, Part 2

Lecture 6: Package and Test

Lecture 7: Custom Box Conclusion

Chapter 10: Bonus! Using the Chef Solo Provisioner

Lecture 1: Introduction to Chef

Lecture 2: Chef Supermarket and Selecting a Cookbook

Lecture 3: Using the Cookbook with Vagrant

Lecture 4: Evaluation of the Supermarket Cookbook

Lecture 5: Creating a Custom Cookbook – Setup and Metadata

Lecture 6: Cookbook Attributes

Lecture 7: Creating the Default (main) Recipe

Lecture 8: Writing the Cookbook Template Files

Lecture 9: Testing and Debugging the Custom Cookbook

Lecture 10: Executing the Custom Cookbook

Lecture 11: Final Testing of the Custom Cookbook

Lecture 12: Using Chef Roles instead of Listing Recipes

Lecture 13: Chef Solo with Vagrant Conclusion and Additional Resources

Chapter 11: Bonus! Special Offers

Lecture 1: Bonus: Exclusive Student Discounts

Instructors

Jason Taylor
Lead Software Engineer, Dev Trainer (19 courses,50k reviews)

John Myers

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 16 votes

2 stars: 16 votes

3 stars: 115 votes

4 stars: 342 votes

5 stars: 368 votes

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