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Provisioning a LAMP Stack with Vagrant

Vagrant comes built-in with access to a number of provisioners — or configuration management tools — that allow us to configure a newly deployed host by installing packages, setting configurations, and managing packages. In this hands-on lab, we leverage the shell and file provisioners to set up a LAMP stack across to servers and ensure the appropriate Apache website configuration is used.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Published
Clock icon Oct 18, 2019

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create the Vagrantfile

    1. Move into the lamp project directory and generate a new Vagrantfile:
    cd lamp/
    vagrant init
    
    1. Open the Vagrantfile, and then update it to create two different machine method blocks, one for each guest:
    Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
      config.vm.box = "fgrehm/trusty64-lxc"
      config.vm.provider "lxc"
    
      config.vm.define "web" do |web|
      end
    
      config.vm.define "db" do |db|
      end
    end
      ```
  2. Challenge

    Set Up Provisioning

    1. Use the shell and file provisioners to run the needed scripts and add the desired configuration:
      Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
        config.vm.box = "fgrehm/trusty64-lxc"
        config.vm.provider "lxc"
        config.vm.define "web" do |web|
          web.vm.provision "shell", path: "scripts/apache-install.sh"
          web.vm.provision "file", source: "configs/apache-example.site",
            destination: "/tmp/configs/apache-example.site"
          web.vm.provision "shell", path: "scripts/apache-sites.sh"
        end
        config.vm.define "db" do |db|
          db.vm.provision "shell", path: "scripts/mysql-install.sh"
        end
      end
    
    1. Save and exit the file.
  3. Challenge

    Test the Vagrantfile

    1. Deploy the environment:
    vagrant up
    
    1. Ensure Apache was installed on the web guest:
    vagrant ssh web
    sudo service apache2 status
    exit
    
    1. Ensure MySQL was installed on the db guest:
    vagrant ssh db
    sudo service mysql status
    exit
    

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