Sharing web applications with HashiCorp Atlas
Atlas is a useful tool to share environments with other developers or colleagues when solving environment issues. Atlas can also be used to share web applications with a remote audience, something that can often be difficult to do when demoing experimental features without setting up new infrastructure.
Getting ready
Before we can share with Atlas, we'll need a valid Atlas account. Signing up for an Atlas (http://atlas.hashicorp.com) account is fairly straightforward. The details of signing up are discussed in the Getting ready section of the previous recipe.
How to do it...
Web development with Vagrant is a fairly common task. Atlas allows you to share and demonstrate any HTTP application (a typical web application, or perhaps even an API) to a remote audience.
First, start with a Vagrantfile that provisions an application to run on port
80. In this case, we'll install the Apache web server and demonstrate a simple static web page. (The simple page...
