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A Guide to Vagrant and Virtual Machines

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Vagrant is a handy and easy-to-use Virtual Machine tool that can be used within your command-line interface. In a nutshell, it makes it easy to create and configure lightweight, reproducible developer environments. In this mini course, you will learn all about virtualization. You will learn how to set up a Vagrant environment, build your own VM, as well as Vagrant commands which you can use from the command line. In the latter half of the course, you will learn how to work with vagrantfile, networking, and data sharing. In all, this is your crash course for understanding the fundamentals of Vagrant.

Vagrant is a handy and easy-to-use Virtual Machine tool that can be used within your command-line interface. In a nutshell, it m...Show More

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11 Lessons1 Quiz

Basic Overview of Virtualization

Types of Hypervisors

What Is Vagrant?

Setting Up the Environment

Building Your First VM With Vagrant

Some Vagrant Commands

Working with Vagrantfile

Networking With Vagrant

Provisioning and Data Sharing

Multi-Machine VMs With Vagrant

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Navjot Singh

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