Carlos Sanchez05/06/12
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If you're already using Vagrant to manage your VirtualBox VMs, then you probably have realized already how annoying is to keep the VBox guest additions up to date in your VMs. We'll help you fix this issue...
Joe Miller05/04/12
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Joe Miller needed a simple mechanism to build native packages on the relevant platforms, ie: .deb's on debian and .rpm on redhat/centos. He ended up using a combination of Vagrant and some homegrown tools such as Bunchr.
Andrew Phillips04/25/12
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Andrew Phillips takes on a tricky VirtualBox problem where the DHCP server sometimes, under as-yet-undetermined circumstances, fails to allocate an IP address to the NAT interface. See how his solution works here...
Mitch Pronschinske03/14/12
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New on the blogosphere today is a super-useful little Vagrant plugin from Juarez Bochi that takes screenshots for all active VMs.
Mitch Pronschinske02/09/12
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Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for building boxes for a few...
Patrick Debois01/04/12
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This is a repost of my SysAdvent blogpost. It's merely here for archival purposes, or for people who read my blog but didn't see the sysadvent blogpost.
Why
Lots has been written about Vagrant. It simply is a great tool: people use it as a sandbox...
Kris Buytaert01/01/12
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(Warning some Ubuntu ranting ahead) apt-get install virtualbox-ose
apt-get install rubygems
gem install vagrantThat's what I assumed it would take me to install vagrant on a spare Ubuntu (Natty) laptop.
Well it's not. after that I was greeted...
Mitch Pronschinske12/15/11
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Today DevOps-coiner Patrick Dubois tweeted: "wow - @guttertec visualized my ideas so much better". The link in that tweet was to a slideshare stack posted by Alex Quack which I will now share with you so that you too can go "wow - very...
Kris Buytaert11/30/11
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I have had most of my test environment, aka
puppetmasters, test mysql setups etc running in KVM for the past couple
of years .. (yes I`m still using a lot of Xen in production
environments, but we've also been using KVM for a while already ..
Patrick Debois09/20/11
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In 2008 at Agile Toronto, I did a session on Agile Infrastructure. This is where I met Andrew Shafer
(working at Reductive Labs). There wasn't that much attention for it
back then, we were still figuring out the impact and ideas. Now 3 years
later, I was...
Patrick Debois09/14/11
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I make it no secret. I simply love vagrant. Why?
Gareth Rushgrove08/11/11
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A brief conversation with Matt Keating on Twitter finally pushed me over the edge and I’ve built a site I’d been meaning to do for a while.
James Betteley07/24/11
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We’ve all heard the fable of the boy who cried wolf, an old tale
written by a Greek slave who lived a long time ago and liked telling
stories. I must stress thought that this was just a story, but like many
good stories (Star Wars, Gremlins 2) it’s...
Gareth Rushgrove07/06/11
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I’ve written about Vagrant previously and the more I use it the more it impresses me and the more it changes how I work. For those that haven’t yet used vagrant
the brief summary is, it’s a way of managing, creating and destroying
headless virtualbox...
Patrick Debois06/20/11
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We distribute vagrantbox to people demo-ing our project. It is a hassle to install the whole setup for non-IT people
The following is a proof of concept to make a self installing vagrant machine.
To create the box you need:
jruby installed
To run the box:
