This document discusses Vagrant, an open source tool that allows users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It provides instructions on installing Vagrant and the base box, configuring a Vagrantfile to define VMs, provisioning VMs using tools like Puppet, accessing VMs using SSH, suspending, destroying, and reloading VMs. Benefits mentioned include having disposable environments, version controlling configs, sharing configs between environments, and managing multiple VMs. Potential objections and questions are also addressed.

1. Boxes and Vagrants
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2. David Thompson
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3. Mac user

4. Virtual machines
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5. Catch bugs
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6. Packages
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7. VMWare

8. VirtualBox

10. Shared folders
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11. (lame pun alert)

12. Port forwarding
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13. Inconsistency
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14. Shit happens
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15. Vagrant

16. $ mkdir mybox; cd mybox
$ vagrant init

17. Base boxen
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18. $ vagrant box add lucid64
http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid64.box

19. config.vm.box = "base"

20. config.vm.box = "ubuntu_natty_64"

21. $ vagrant up

23. $ vagrant ssh

24. $ vagrant suspend

25. $ vagrant destroy

27. (or Chef)

29. config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
puppet.manifest_file = "foobang.pp"
end

30. exec { "apt-get-update":
command => "/usr/bin/apt-get update",
}
package { ["nginx", "python", "cowsay"]:
ensure => installed,
require => Exec["apt-get-update"],
}

31. $ vagrant reload
or, if you haven't changed paths:
$ vagrant provision

32. Disposable everything
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33. Version control
http://octodex.github.com/#setuptocat

34. Shared config with live
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35. Multiple VMs
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36. Objections

37. Too complicated
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38. My environment!
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41. Questions?
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