Advanced Provisioning

We have gone through manually setting up a server with Vagrant and we're about to show you how to setup a full LAMP stack in the next lesson.

We're doing this via shell provisioning. There's nothing wrong with this, it's just not very robust.

For example, what if:

• You wanted easier control over the configuration?
• Wanted to do error handling on the

You really are limited in Bash on how far you can take it. There's tools specifically designed for this. Some examples:

• Puppet
• Chef
• Ansible
• Salt
• Docker (arguably)