Writing Vagrantfiles is tedious, especially when you’re setting up a multi-VM environment. Typically, people will copy/paste code blocks that define hosts, but that becomes unwieldy. However, a Vagrantfile is “just” Ruby, so can’t we simplify things a bit using the power of the language? Turns out, we can! Read below to find how you can reduce setting up a multi-VM Vagrant environment to writing a simple YAML file.

Bert Van Vreckem

Lecturer ICT at HOGENT

Lecturer ICT at HOGENT

Ghent