Vagrant

Official website https://www.vagrantup.com/

Resources

Documentation

https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/

Books

• Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook (2015)
• Creating Development Environments with Vagrant (2015, 2nd Ed)
• Pro Vagrant (2015)
• Vagrant: Up and Running (2013)

Simple example

mkdir precise32
cd precise32
vagrant init hashcorp/precise32
vagrant up

If we open VirtualBox, we will see a new guest machine called precise32_default_XXXXXXXX is created and running.

Where is vagrant saving boxes files

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10155708/where-does-vagrant-download-its-box-files-to

• Windows: C:/Users/USERNAME/.vagrant.d/boxes
• Linux and Mac: ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/

We can change the default directory by modifying the VAGRANT_HOME variable. See https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/other/environmental-variables.html.