Introduction

You are about to embark on an exciting journey focused on Vagrant and its role within DevOps. Throughout these chapters, you will learn interesting and useful facts, as well as tips and tricks, about Vagrant. Initially, we will focus on the basics of Vagrant and getting it installed and running on your machine. We will then venture through its ins and outs, by focusing on the important parts of Vagrant, such as its commands, networking, multi-machine, Vagrantfiles, and using configuration management tools, such as Chef, Docker, and Ansible. By the end of this book, you will have solid foundational knowledge about Vagrant and the necessary skill set to start using it on a day-to-day basis as part of your DevOps workflow. 

In this chapter, we will create a solid foundation that will help you understand what Vagrant is, what VirtualBox is, and how Vagrant ties into the DevOps landscape. We will learn about the current state of development tools in DevOps and focus on how Vagrant can be used by many different teams in an organisation—not just developers! By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of the basics of Vagrant, VirtualBox, and DevOps.