Vagrant

Vagrant Ansible Provisioner: working with the Ansible Inventory – addendum

Recently I wrote a post about one of my dream combinations, Ansible and Vagrant. After hitting…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: gather facts in an ad-hoc fashion

There are times when I really need to get some ansible_facts from a host to work out details…
Vagrant Ansible Provisioner: working with the Ansible Inventory

Vagrant and Ansible are a great match: using Vagrant it’s very easy to work with virtual…
Vagrant: always provision virtual machines

Since Spectre and Meltdown (2 infamous side channel attack vectors on CPUs) have become public I…
Vagrant: mapping a Virtualbox VM to a Vagrant environment

This is a small post hopefully saving you a few minutes mapping Vagrant and VirtualBox environments.…
Building a Debian 11 Vagrant Box using Packer and Ansible

Sometimes it might be necessary to create one’s own Vagrant base box for reasons too numerous…
Automating Vagrant Box versioning

The longer I work in IT the more I dislike repetitive processes. For example, when updating…
Introducing Packer: building Vagrant base boxes hands-free

I have referred to Packer in some of my cloud-related presentations as an example of a…
Versioning for your local Vagrant boxes: handling updates

In my last post I summarised how to enable versioning for Vagrant box outside Vagrant’s cloud.…
Versioning for your local Vagrant boxes: adding a new box

I have been using Vagrant for quite some time now can’t tell you how much of…