A Quick of Overview of Virtualization with Vagrant and Virtualbox

Vagrant could provision Virtualbox virtual machines.

I started to use the vagrant since I am on Windows and would need some DevOps automation for creating a reproducible setup for NodeJS and other Data Science activity.

I used a Vagrantfile to automate it, and also tried to share some resources from the host Windows machine.  The guest machine is in Virtualbox which is provisioned by Vagrant through its Vagrantfile configuration.

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I hope this gets you going and exploring the use of Vagrant + Virtualbox for testing environment and for creating an environment for your use cases.