[colug-432] Vagrant was: Reminder: meeting Wednesday

[Rick Hornsby]

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 17:38, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:35:40PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
>> I checked the Vagrant website for a reference to read through 
>> in advance of the meeting, and there is an outlink to the 
>> Amazon / O'Reilly book.  The review (first hit) qupted 
>> below caused me to hesitate
>> 
>> Joe, is there a good 'getting started' / tutorial of current 
>> syntax, that you would recommend?
> 
> The Vagrant website has some decent introductory material:
> 
> https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/getting-started/index.html
> 
> The user interface commands haven't changed much, and the Vagrantfile
> config syntax should be adequately explained in the link above to get a
> complete novice up and running with minimal fuss.
> 
> As with most things, Vagrant can do an awful lot and the more you try to
> make it do the more you'll need to dig into the documentation.  If
> you're just getting started, the link above should be adequate to
> achieve success.

+1

I taught myself Vagrant using that very Getting Started guide.  It's a fairly gentle introduction, and will walk you through some early successes before you dive into more complex tasks.  The Vagrant documentation, on the whole, is IMHO on the better side of good.