Vagrant is used to provision the VM's.
Docker is used to build and manage linux containers.
Ansible is used in environment configuration managemnent tasks.
This Vagrant profile uses Ansible provisioner to create a centos 7 VM in virtual box, then it uses Ansible to build the latest alpine nginx docker containers for a simple www web app stack, Docker-style:
www: NGINX web app on alpine docker container.
This README file is inside a folder that contains a Vagrantfile (hereafter this folder shall be called the [vagrant_root]), which tells Vagrant how to set up your virtual machine in VirtualBox.
To use the vagrant file, you will need to have done the following:
- Download and Install VirtualBox
- Download and Install Vagrant
- Install Ansible
- Open a shell prompt (Terminal app on a Mac) and cd into the folder containing the
Vagrantfile
Once all of that is done, you can simply type in vagrant up, and Vagrant will create a new centos 7 VM, install the base box, and configure it.
Once the new VM is up and running (after vagrant up is complete and you're back at the command prompt), you can log into it via SSH if you'd like by typing in vagrant ssh. Otherwise, the next steps are below.
You need to modify your host machine's hosts file (Mac/Linux: /etc/hosts; Windows: %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts), adding the line below:
192.168.55.55 dockertest.test
After that is configured, you could visit http://dockertest.test/ in a browser, and you'll see the test page.
Created in 2017 by [Chandru Balasubramaniam]