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Keeping VirtualBox Guest Additions in sync with Vagrant

Whenever you’re upgrading the software packages on your VirtualBox machine, managed by Vagrant, you risk VirtualBox Guest Additions render unusable and thus your shared folders don’t work anymore. This usually happens whenever a kernel upgrade is being done which requires the VirtualBox drivers to be recompiled. Thanks to a Vagrant plugin called vbguest you can …

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Server provisioning: my experience with Puppet and Chef

Server provisioning tools such as Chef and Puppet make it easy to automate installation and configuration of your servers. I’ve used both now in two projects where they provisioned my virtual servers built with Vagrant. I’ve first heard of Chef and Puppet when I started using Vagrant. With Vagrant you can quickly get a virtual …

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