Virtualization

This guide explains how to install VirtualBox 6.0 on CentOS 7 directly from official Oracle repositories. Get valuable insight into this open-source cross-platform virtualization software today.

The XAMPP stack is an open-source Apache distribution of a PHP development environment consisting of cross-platform software (X): Apache (A), MariaDB (M), PHP and Perl (P). In this article, you will find simple instructions on how to install the XAMPP stack on CentOS 7, as well as how to verify installation and uninstall the XAMPP package.

VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 is a single interface for workload migration, cloud-to-cloud disaster recovery, and on-premises disaster recovery. In this tutorial, learn how to successfully complete the VCloud Availability Tenant Configuration.

Wine is free software that allows you to run Windows applications on other systems, including Linux, Mac, Solaris, and FreeBSD.You can download this open-source software using the source code or from the EPEL repository. In this tutorial, learn how to install Wine 4.0 stable release on CentOS 7.

Terraform is a tool that creates a single provisioned interface for several different cloud-based services.  Referred to as “infrastructure as code,” it uses a configuration file to manage resources. This guide will help you install Terraform on an Ubuntu 18.04 or CentOS 7 Linux system.

Docker Compose is a software package that modifies the behavior of Docker. Docker creates a specific container environment for running an application. Docker Compose lets you string together multiple Docker containers to work together. This guide will help you install and work with Docker Compose.

A Docker container uses an image of a preconfigured operating system environment. Images are often a preconfigured operating system and can be modified for a specific task. When you launch a Docker image, it exists in a container. You may have multiple containers running at the same time. Containers can also be launched, execute code, and close very quickly. Managing containers is essential for working in Docker. This guide shows you how to list, stop, and start Docker containers.

Vagrant is a tool for configuring and deploying an exact image of a virtual operating system. It is often used in software development to ensure that all team members are writing code for the same configuration. This helps ensure that a code fragment from one developer works when another developer runs it on their system. This guide will walk you through an overview of the process of installing, configuring, and managing Vagrant.

Docker allows users to run applications isolated from a host computer, without the necessity of having separate operating systems for them to run on. Instead, you install and manage the Docker containers with a containerization engine (Docker daemon. As you start using Docker, you will face situations where you need to know how to share data between containers. 

Vagrant is a software package that creates a standardized operating environment. It does this using virtualization technology. Vagrant provides a command-line tool for loading and managing virtual operating systems. These can be customized using a text file and deployed across multiple systems. We will be using the VirtualBox provider in this tutorial. This guide will walk you through installing Vagrant on CentOS 7.