From the course: Learning Elastic Stack
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Set up your learning sandbox - Elastic Stack Tutorial
From the course: Learning Elastic Stack
Set up your learning sandbox
- [Instructor] Since the Elastic Stack is normally deployed across several servers and ingest data from multiple sources, we're going to set up a sandbox learning environment for this course. We'll be using three tools to handle that, VirtualBox, Vagrant and LXD. VirtualBox is a free virtualization tool that lets you run a virtual machine that will host the sandbox. You can download it from virtualbox.org and it's free. Vagrant is a tool that makes working with the VMs much simpler and it's also available for free. Just go to vagrantup.com. LXD is a container runtime that we will use on the VM to simulate a small network of servers. Don't worry if you're not familiar with LXD. I've provided some wrapper scripts in the VM for working with it. For the sake of time, I won't go through a step-by-step of how to install Vagrant and VirtualBox. If you don't already have them installed, just pause the video now and do that. If you need more detail on how to work with them, you should be able…
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