How To Use Vagrant To Create Small Virtual Test Lab on a Linux / OS X / MS-Windows

Vagrant is a multi-platform command line tool for creating lightweight, reproducible and portable virtual environments. Vagrant acts as a glue layer between different virtualization solutions (Software, hardware PaaS and IaaS) and different configuration management utilities (Puppet, Chef, etc’). Vagrant was started back at 2010 by Mitchell Hashimoto as a side project and later became one of the first products of HashiCorp – the company Mitchell founded. While officially described as a tool for setting up development environments, Vagrant can be used for a lot of other purposes by non developers as well: * Creating demo labs * Testing configuration management tools * Speeding up the work with non multi-platform tools such as Docker In this tutorial I’ll show how can we take Vagrant as use it to create small virtual test lab which we will be able to pass to our colleagues.