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

[Joseph Beard]

I’ll echo the sentiments of all: the book _is_ out of date from a details perspective, but still contains useful information about the Vagrant workflow. Hashicorp et al has done an excellent job with the documentation at https://vagrantup.com <https://vagrantup.com/> that you’ll be able to find most everything that you need there, all the way from basic usage to plugin development.

My one complaint about their online documentation is that it is for the current version of Vagrant only; there is no archive of documentation for prior releases. That said, Vagrant has been very forwards compatible for some time (starting mainly with the V2 Vagrantfile syntax which the review mentions) and I have never encountered a need to maintain use of an older version.


Joe
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Joseph Beard
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> On Oct 19, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.
> 
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