Vagrant creator here. What a pleasant surprise to see this pop up on HN this morning (it was unexpected, to be sure). I just want to shamelessly say that if you're more of a book person, the Vagrant O'Reilly book I wrote was just released this week, and it is a great way to get started:
(And, hopefully as you know, as an author I make barely any royalties on any book sold, so I'm not posting this for financial reasons. I just know some people really prefer books to online docs.)
If you have any input over the sample chapter, it'd be nice if it could represent a portion of a "real" chapter of the book. Right now it just provides the "how to install Vagrant" section, which isn't really representative of the book's content.
Absolutely. I will not cover version 2 of Vagrant until Vagrant 2.0 is actually released. The book uses version 1 configuration syntax running in the latest version of Vagrant. This allows you to get all the benefits of the latest stability improvements, while using a stable configuration syntax.
The book will be fully updated to version 2.0 when that is stable, in the sense that configuration will no longer change. Thousands of companies are already on the latest version of Vagrant and using it without issue.
I'm working on this now. I won't say much more than that until I have something to really show for it.
Development environments are the primary focus on Vagrant because that was the pain point it was initially meant to solve, and it does this quite well. The workflow model Vagrant introduces doesn't translate as well into staging/production yet. I'm actively investigating the use cases here and how Vagrant may adapt to it (if at all).
I was approached by O'Reilly very early. I wasn't even considering writing a book prior to that. However, my experience with O'Reilly has been _fantastic_. I was never writing the book for money, I was writing it for publicity and to help push the project forward. For these reasons, O'Reilly was the clear winner.
Additionally, everyone I've ever worked with at O'Reilly has been very professional, and they've been doing a great job helping push the book forward. They even rushed the production process (editing, indexing, proofreading, printing, etc.) from their typical timelines down to only a couple weeks so the book would be fully ready for VelocityConf in a couple weeks. And they did it! I'll be at VelocityConf signing books.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026358.do
Thanks!
(And, hopefully as you know, as an author I make barely any royalties on any book sold, so I'm not posting this for financial reasons. I just know some people really prefer books to online docs.)