Vagrant with Windows

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Piotr Stapp & Mateusz Janiszewski

Who are we?

Piotr Stapp

User of every useful technology

DevOps and automation adept

Working in as IT Expert

My blog is stapp.space

My Twitter is @ptrstpp950

Who are we?

Mateusz Janiszewski

Infrastructure virtualization enthusiast

Working in as Bus & Sys Integration Analyst

My Twitter is @matjanin

Vagrant definition

A vagrant or a vagabond is a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Other synonyms include "tramp," "hobo," and "drifter". A vagrant could be described as being "a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging"; vagrancy is the condition of such persons.

What is vagrant?

• Vagrant is an open-source tool which helps you create, configure and provision development environments.
• Consider it a wrapper around virtualization software like VMware or VirtualBox and provisioning tools for config management such as Puppet or Chef or even PowerShell :)

Why should I care?

1. Easily create disposable, consistent environments
2. Set up multiple environments at the same time with one config file, one command. vagrant up
3. Configuration put under source control
4. Supports various platforms

Demo time

vagrant up

What will be done:

• Setup clean Windows 2012 on VirtualBox
• Install IIS
• Enable .NET
• Remove default site
• Install this presentation on new AppPool on 80

Vagrant file

• Plain text file in Ruby
• Allows to configure: box, network configuration, scripts to run, shared folders, VM properties
• Easy to create

  vagrant init

Vagrant workflow

Demo time

Remote debugging

Where do boxes come from?

• vagrantbox.es
• atlas.hashicorp.com
• vagrantcloud.com
• ...or just create your own box ;)

How do I create my own box?

Fast - packer.io

Slow - from scratch

Box from scratch

• Create and preconfigure a VM - (That's the longest part)
• Run powershell command:
  vagrant package --base [VM name] --output [box name].box
• 

Packer

• Packer vagrant post-processor can create boxes from such providers as:

  AWS and Azure

  DigitalOcean

  Hyper-V

  Parallels

  QEMU

  VirtualBox

  VMware

How?

• Packer uses json files as tamplates to create boxes
• git clone Joe Fitzgerald's packer-windows for example json
• You need to provide info for 3 sections:

  builders

  provisioners

  post-processors

• packer build [template_name].json

Overview

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