Learn how to rapidly set up an Oracle RAC testing cluster using VirtualBox and Vagrant, covering the reasons for avoiding Docker, required software versions, Vagrantfile configuration, shared disk creation, network setup, and step‑by‑step commands to launch and access the virtual machines.
This article explains how to use Vagrant and VirtualBox to create a reproducible development and testing environment for the Kube-OVN Kubernetes CNI project, including Vagrantfile configuration, provisioning scripts for Docker, Kubernetes tools, Go, and steps to compile, test, and run Kube-OVN with Kind clusters.
This article explains the fundamental differences between Vagrant and Docker, compares virtual machines and containers across isolation, resource usage, startup time and image size, and outlines when to choose Vagrant for VM management versus Docker for rapid application development and deployment.
This article explains what Vagrant is, outlines its development history, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing and using it, compares it with traditional virtual‑machine workflows, and highlights its advantages for creating reproducible development environments.
This guide walks through the new features of Elastic Stack 7.9 and shows step‑by‑step how to provision a three‑node Elasticsearch cluster on a local Mac using Vagrant, enabling security, TLS, API keys, and providing all necessary scripts, configuration files, and verification commands.
Learn how to build a three‑node Elasticsearch cluster with full TLS encryption, configure Kibana’s HTTPS settings, create minimal‑privilege Beats‑writer roles, and eliminate clear‑text passwords using Elastic Stack’s keystore, all within a reproducible Vagrant environment for secure, scalable monitoring.
This guide walks you through installing Elastic Workplace Search and Elastic Enterprise Search on a CentOS 8 VM using Vagrant, configuring data sources such as GitHub and Atlassian products, setting up user groups and weights, and verifying search results, all within a day.
Learn step‑by‑step how to provision an Elasticsearch server with Vagrant, install Elastic App Search, configure credentials, index a large video‑games dataset via API, customize schema, create synonyms and boosts, and deploy a React‑based search UI to Nginx, all with detailed commands and code snippets.
This tutorial explains how to enable virtualization, install VirtualBox and Vagrant, add an Ubuntu box from a Chinese mirror, configure the Vagrantfile, launch the VM, and connect via SSH, providing all necessary commands and screenshots for a fast Ubuntu development environment.
This guide explains how to view the VirtualBox host‑only network, set a matching IP address in the Vagrantfile, reload the VM, and verify connectivity between the host and the virtual machine using ping commands.
This guide walks through enabling virtualization, installing VirtualBox and Vagrant, adding Ubuntu box images from Chinese mirrors, configuring the Vagrantfile, and using Vagrant commands to start, SSH into, and manage an Ubuntu virtual machine on Windows.
This guide shows how to bypass Vagrant's default box download failures by manually fetching Ubuntu and CentOS box files from Chinese mirror sites, importing them into Vagrant on macOS, and verifying the setup with practical commands and examples.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to provision a single‑node Elastic Stack with TLS‑enabled authentication, configure Kibana and Filebeat modules, and verify distributed log collection in a Vagrant‑based CentOS 8 environment.
Learn how to quickly provision a consistent Python development environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox, from installing the tools, configuring a Vagrantfile, syncing project directories, installing dependencies, to exporting the box for sharing, eliminating manual setup and onboarding delays.
This article explains why static files and JavaScript may not update correctly in a Vagrant‑VirtualBox development setup on Windows, describes the underlying VirtualBox sendfile bug, and provides step‑by‑step instructions to disable sendfile in both Nginx and Apache to resolve the issue.
Learn step‑by‑step how to install VirtualBox and Vagrant on Windows 7/10, configure a CentOS6 box, troubleshoot common PowerShell and virtualization errors, set up SSH access with Xshell, and enable bidirectional folder syncing for a seamless development environment.
This guide walks you through setting up a highly available web service on CentOS 7 by using Vagrant to create four virtual machines, installing Keepalived and OpenResty, configuring VRRP and LVS for load balancing, binding a virtual IP, and testing failover to ensure continuous service delivery.
This tutorial shows how to quickly set up a log analysis platform using the ELK stack, OpenResty, Ansible, and Vagrant, covering architecture, required tools, server provisioning, deployment commands, testing procedures, and next‑step enhancements for real‑world use.
This step‑by‑step guide shows how to set up an AWS Tokyo VM, install Git and Ansible, clone microservice lifecycle and bookstore repositories, configure Vagrant, build Docker images, run tests with docker‑compose, and push the resulting images to a private registry.
This guide walks you through setting up a dedicated PHP 7 development environment using Laravel's Homestead Vagrant box, configuring Xdebug for step‑by‑step debugging, integrating PHPStorm, and optionally packaging everything into a ready‑to‑run Docker container.
Compiled from the SEI blog series, this article presents concise summaries of the six most popular DevOps topics of the past six months—including Agile integration, ChatOps communication, Vagrant environment consistency, mitigating context‑switching overhead, and a foundational overview of DevOps—offering practical insights and links to the original sources.
This article compares Docker and Vagrant, outlining their distinct use cases, strengths, and limitations, and explains why Vagrant is better for managing virtual machines while Docker excels at rapid application development and deployment in containerized environments.
The article explains why directly comparing Vagrant and Docker is misleading, outlines their different abstractions and use‑cases, and provides practical guidance on when to use Vagrant for virtual machine management versus Docker for lightweight container‑based development and deployment.
