Getting started with Vagrant

The year was 2013. The place was BADCamp. As I wandered from session to session I kept hearing about Vagrant, a free open source tool for creating and configuring disposable virtual environments. Shiny! But, I didn't know anything about it.

So, over the last year I challenged myself to learn to use Vagrant in Drupal core development and other projects. In this talk I would like to introduce you to working with Vagrant:

• What is Vagrant and why you might want to use it
• New vocabulary! what are providers, provisioners, boxes
• Vagrant and Drupal
• Common problems you might encounter when working with Vagrant and tips to make your experience with Vagrant better
• Vagrant resources

If you have used Acquia Dev Desktop or MAMP/WAMP/XAMPP and want a more flexible virtual environment for your projects, or are simply curious about working with Vagrant and want to get a solid overview, this talk is for you.

• Slides: speakerdeck.com/alimac/getting-started-with-vagrant
• Code: github.com/alimac/badcamp-2014