Vagrant: Up and Running is a very concise book that helps you to get started with Vagrant, which is a very smart tool with growing role in software development. I believe that title of the book is very appropriate as you can hit the ground running and start using the tool comfortably for your project very soon after reading this book.
There's quite short introduction to what Vagrant is, and then the author shows exactly how to use it properly. Mitchell show how to install it and how to interact with it by the offered set of commands. You'll find there instructions for creating virtual machine, provisioning it and setting up a network, also between set of machines. The author discusses many common use cases for using every feature of this tool. Portion of the book shows usage of the plugins for Vagrant and teaches you about development of these plugins. At the end of the book, you'll also find reference chapters that describes Vagrant's options one by one.
I've really enjoyed reading this book. Mitchel Hashimoto shows how to solve most common problems - problems that most readers will encounter if the try Vagrant or virtualization in general, like automatic software installation, port forwarding, folder sharing. And he does it all with quite simple and very easy to understand examples.
I fully recommend reading it for anyone that is interested in what Vagrant offers to its users and how to make best use of it.
I'd love to post here some kind of tutorial for Vagrant soon!
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