Explain the features, benefits, and advantages of Vagrant, why it is so awesome and how you can get up and running quickly. Vagrant is a great piece of software that creates reproducible and portable virtual machines which can be used as web servers for local WordPress testing environments. Vagrant is a tool for managing virtual machines – creating a programmatic way to create and configure virtual machines that mimic an application’s production environment.

1. Using Virtual Machines (VM)
To Build Automated Dev Environments
Local WordPress Development

2. Anthony E. Alvarez
Also known as @AnthonyEalvarez

3. I build sites
http://AnthonyAlvarez.us

4. Case Study: RailsBridge NYC

5. Topics
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Why Vagrant is so awesome
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How to get up and running fast
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WordPress-related Vagrant resources

6. Your Computer is a Beautiful Lawn

7. A Server is like a beach

8. XAMPP/MAMP is a small sandbox

9. Installation

10. Vagrant Approach

12. Developer Benefits
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Installing WordPress development environment in a reliable,
consistent and isolated way
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Run a vagrant box configured exactly like production machine
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Your machine is not tied to one project
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Can customize each VM environment to match production.
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Can have multiple VMs on a PC.
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Debugging an edge issue due specific version of PHP, MySQL
etc.
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Separates code and environment it runs in.
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A more elegant solution compared to LAMP

13. The Vagrant Advantage
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Repeatable
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Verfiably correct
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Isolated
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Easy to understand
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Focus on Dev not Ops
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Cross Platform
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Major Hypervisor support
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Mature, stable, proven since 2010

14. Developer Workflow
1) Check out any project
2) ‘vagrant up’
3) Done

15. Bottom Line
Continue to work in your own browsers, editors,
and other tools.
The existence of Vagrant is
transparent and unimportant.
Vagrant is just the workhorse that creates
consistent and stable development environments.

16. Systems Operators
1) “vagrant up”
2) Complete sandbox to test ops scripts
Automation developed used for both production
and development.
With every vagrant up, developers get a fully
provisioned environment using the same scripts
as production.

17. Clean up
Vagrant destroy
Vagrant suspend
Vagrant halt.

18. Tao of Vagrant
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Vagrant up will get you up and running at any moment.
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Knowledge transfers to every project that uses Vagrant.
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Vagrant is a general purpose Tool. Use it in a way that works best
for you.
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May need to SSH into the machine to run some code.
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No problem: vagrant ssh

19. Why Vagrant
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Powerful work-flow
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Clean abstractions
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Uncompromising Flexibility

20. Get Up and Running Quickly
1. // Install Git and vagrant
2. // Install vagrant plugins
3. #vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
4. // edits localhosts file and clean it when done
5. #vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers
6. #git clone https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV dev
7. #git clone https://github.com/bradp/vv.git
8. //Variable VVV - the best VVV site wizard
9. #git clone https://github.com/leogopal/VVV-Dashboard
10. #mv VVV-Dashboard/dashboard* www/default/
11. #cd dev
12. #vagrant up

21. Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants (VVV)

22. Variable VVV

23. VagrantPress
●
Alternative to VVV for Testing plugins and themes
before deploying them on a live site
●
Creating a dev site for theme development
●
Running WordPress Betas to try new features
https://github.com/chad-thompson/vagrantpress
https://varyingvagrantvagrants.org/

24. WordPress Vagrant Resources
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Ideas On Purpose
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Mercury Vagrant
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Chassis.io
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Vagrant + Chef + WordPress
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Salty WordPress
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Evolution WordPress
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VagrantPress
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Atlas Directory of Vagrant Boxes

25. Ideas On Purpose
https://github.com/ideasonpurpose/basic-
wordpress-vagrant

26. Mercury Vagrant (HGV)
https://github.com/wpengine/hgv

27. Chassis.io
Use Chassis if you want an environment that’s simple yet powerful. It’s a minimalist
development setup that boots up fast and gets out of the way.
Use VVV if you want an environment that comes with lots of features, is highly extensible,
and can run many different site configurations.
Chassis is an open source virtual server for your WordPress site, built using Vagrant

28. Vagrant + Chef + WordPress
vccw.cc

29. Salty WordPress
Uses three great technologies: Salt, Vagrant, and
WordPress.
https://github.com/humanmade/Salty-WordPress

30. Evolution WordPress
Generate an entirely versioned, multi-environment
Wordpress site in under a minute!
https://github.com/evolution/wordpress

31. VagrantPress
VagrantPress is a packaged development
environment for developing WordPress themes
and modules.
https://github.com/chad-thompson/vagrantpress

32. Atlas Directory of Boxes
https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search

33. Thankyou
http://AnthonyAlvarez.us