Common Vagrant Tasks

(Up-to-date source of this post.)

Search and add a box (virtual machine image):

vagrant box add https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64

• added box is global to the vagrant install
• this is the base box (used to start the VM from the clean state)
• base boxes are stored in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes

Initialize vagrant environment:

mkdir ubuntu-trusty64
cd ubuntu-trusty64
vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64

• Vagrantfile is created

Start vagrant environment:

vagrant up

• vagrant "imports" (copies) the base box to provider specific location (ex. ~/.VirtualBox)

Check box(es) status:

vagrant status

Check box(es) SSH configuration:

vagrant ssh-config

Ssh to a box:

vagrant ssh

Clean up:

# save VM's state; fastest to start again; eats most diskspace (hard disk + saved state of RAM)
vagrant suspend

# graceful shutdown; slower to start again, still eats disk space (hard disk)
vagrant halt

# power down and remove all of the guest hard disks; even slower to
# start again (reimport of the base box and reprovisioning)
vagrant destroy

Show status of all vagrant environments on the host (independent of the directory you're in):

vagrant global-status [--prune]

To share a folder from the host on the guest, add following to Vagrantfile:

config.vm.synced_folder "../../eset-repos", "/shared/eset-repos",
  owner: "jreisinger", group: "jreisinger"

Resources

• https://docs.vagrantup.com
• https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/4-vagrant
• http://docs-v1.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/