Chapter 6
Virtualisation

There was a time when virtualisation was considered a rather exotic solution for IT systems but nowadays it is considered essential.

In Chapter 2 we installed VirtualBox Oracle’s virtualisation tool. We will be using VirtualBox for all our virtualisation. We also installed Vagrant a handy tool from HashiCorp that simplifies the programmatic definition of our local virtual machines. In this chapter we look at creating a virtual server both manually and using Vagrant.