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Vagrant Setup

Vagrant allows users to easily create and configure virtual development environments on their local machines. It makes use of virtualization software like VirtualBox to provision virtual machines from configuration files. The document provides instructions for installing Vagrant on Windows, including downloading VirtualBox, Vagrant, and an SSH client. It then demonstrates how to initialize and start a sample Vagrant environment running Ubuntu. Features of port forwarding, shared folders, and networking configurations are also mentioned. The document concludes with basic steps for installing Chef Server on RHEL7 to manage infrastructure configurations and applications.

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Vagrant Setup

Vagrant allows users to easily create and configure virtual development environments on their local machines. It makes use of virtualization software like VirtualBox to provision virtual machines from configuration files. The document provides instructions for installing Vagrant on Windows, including downloading VirtualBox, Vagrant, and an SSH client. It then demonstrates how to initialize and start a sample Vagrant environment running Ubuntu. Features of port forwarding, shared folders, and networking configurations are also mentioned. The document concludes with basic steps for installing Chef Server on RHEL7 to manage infrastructure configurations and applications.

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Virtualisation:

- Making the best utilisation of hardware using the tools like VMware
Cloud Computing:
- Taking an advantage of Virtualisation in cloud for provisioning the
instances and application for pay and use

Virtualisation softwares: VMware, VirtualBox etc

Vagrant:
- Makes use of virtualisation concept and gives an easier way to launch
instances on the fly to make use of them in a developer machine

Installation of vagrant in Windows:


===================================
- Vagrant makes use of VirtualBox to provision instances, so first install VB
from below link
http://www.virtualbox.org/
- Now download vagrant and install it as these are plain exe files and easy
to install
https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/installation/
- Vagrant requires some ssh client to talk to nodes from command line, so you
can install any ssh clent like Cygwin or Git bash etc
https://git-scm.com/download/win
- Now create a directory in any drive
cd D:
mkdir Vagrant
cd Vagrant
vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
vagrant up
- The above commands will automatically setups a default hashicorp instance
under D:\vagrant directory, this takes a while to install as it downloads the VM
image from internet
- To verify list of instances in your machine run below command
vagrant box list
- Now you can login to the box with below command and run all linux commands
and play around
vagrant ssh
Features of vagrant:
===================
- You can share your files in windows(host OS) with vagrant node, try to keep
any files under D:\vagrant and same file can be seen inside the node under
/vagrantfile/ location
- You can enable port forwardings even
- You can assign static IP and make private network
- You can assign dynamic IP to your box, go through below link to see how we
can enable these features
https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/networking.html

Chef-Server Installation:
------------------------
- RHEL7 instance should be a pre-requisite
- Follow instructions mentioned here:
http://misheska.com/blog/2014/11/25/chef-server-12/
Download chef 12.0 rpm file for centOS 7.0
rpm -i cehf_installer.rpm
sudo chef-server-ctl install opscode-manage
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

sudo chef-server-ctl user-create --filename /etc/chef-server/chiru.pem chiru


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sudo chef-server-ctl org-create ssh SacredSF --association_user chiru


--filename /etc/chef-server/ssh.pem

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