Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the benefits of using virtualized development environments and specifically, Vagrant. We then installed Oracle VirtualBox, which is the virtualization provider Vagrant uses by default, and we installed Vagrant. After installing Vagrant, we ran the vagrant command to check whether it was installed correctly.

Now that we have Vagrant and a provider installed, we can now move onto using Vagrant to set up and manage some of our development projects in a virtual development environment. In the next chapter, we will create our first project, learn about the configuration file, and manage our Vagrant controlled machines.