Centralized management solution for vagrant in development environment

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Centralized Management mechanism in development environment for Vagrant - a virtual platform for building up development environments. Some approaches have been applied for utilizing development environment, however administrator still takes time and effort to control and manage. Our proposed model can save the time, minimize the effort for system operators when deploying development environment using Vagrant and guarantee the uniform working environment for users. Through our solution, all of administration task will be carried out on a centralized location so that the deployment process of virtual machines and environment will be executed automatically. In addition, in order to improve security for our system, we not only integrate the authentication and authorization mechanism but also implement the secured channel among nodes for encrypting traffic in our system to mitigate the internal and external attacks. © 2017 ACM.