Vagrant

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

Resources

Download

The version available now is 1.8.1.

Use vagrant -v to see the vagrant version currently installed in your machine.

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)

A simple example

$ mkdir precise32
$ cd precise32
$ vagrant init hashcorp/precise32
A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now
ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read
the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on
`vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.
$ cat Vagrant
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashcorp/precise32"
end
$ vagrant up
vm
* The box 'hashcorp/precise32' could not be found.

The solution from stackoverflow works.

If we open VirtualBox GUI, we will see a new guest machine called precise32_default_XXXXXXXX is created and running though we do not see Ubuntu precise 32 desktop application in a new window.

Some commands

vagrant up
vagrant halt # gracefully shut down

vagrant suspend 
vagrant resume

vagrant destroy # stops the running machine Vagrant is managing and destroys all resources

vagrant box SUBCOMMANDS
vagrant box remove ubuntu/trusty32

vagrant ssh

vagrant package # This packages a currently running VirtualBox environment into a re-usable box.

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.

Vagrantfile

Vagrantfile is just Ruby.

Vagrantfile template

If we run vagrant init, we will get the following vagrantfile.

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  # ...
end

Precise32

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashcorp/precise32"
end

config.vm

Config namespace: config.vm

The settings within config.vm modify the configuration of the machine that Vagrant manages.

• config.vm.boot_timeout
• config.vm.box
• config.vm.box_url
• config.vm.communicator
• config.vm.hostname
• config.vm.provider
• config.vm.synced_folder

Boxes

Download a box w/ initializing an env

vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64

You can also quickly initialize a Vagrant environment with vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64.

We can also specify an URL to add/download a box.

vagrant box add http://servername/boxes/environment.box

Remove a box

Something like

vagrant box remove ubuntu/trusty32

List downloaded boxes

vagrant box list