Chapter 2. Setting Up Your CoreOS Environment

CoreOS can be installed on a variety of platforms such as bare metal servers, cloud provider's virtual machines, physical servers, and so on. This chapter describes in detail how to bring up your first CoreOS environment focusing on deploying CoreOS on a Virtual Machine. When deploying in a virtualization environment, tools such as Vagrant come in very handy in managing CoreOS virtual machines. Vagrant enables setting up CoreOS with multiple nodes even on single laptops or workstations easily with minimum configuration. Vagrant supports VirtualBox, a commonly used virtualization application. Both Vagrant and VirtualBox are available for multiple architecture, such as Intel or AMD, and operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac.

This chapter covers setting up CoreOS on VirtualBox, VMware VSphere, and the following topics:

• VirtualBox installation
• Introduction to Vagrant
• CoreOS on VMware VSphere setup
• Introduction to Docker

Tip

GIT is used for downloading all the required software mentioned in this chapter.