Vagrant

• configuration and provisioning tool using which you can create VMs or container
• a mechanism to reproduce environments
• needs provider which is VirtualBox/VMware/Docker

https://www.vagrantup.com/

Quotes

Development Environments Made Easy

Get Started

# create some folder
mkdir vagrant_getting_started
cd vagrant_getting_started
vagrant init
vim Vagrantfile # edit config; change config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise64"
vagrant up

Vagrant command

check version

vagrant --version

create empty vagrant file

vagrant init

create environment

vagrant up
vagrant up [id]

check vagrant

vagrant status

log in to vm

vagrant ssh

check all vagrant environment

vagrant global-status

suspends the machine

vagrant suspend
vagrant suspend [id]

stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine

vagrant destroy
vagrant destroy [id]

boxes

vagrant box list
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64

Vagrantfile

List of all available vagrant box (here)

hashicorp/precise64
ubuntu/trusty64

With provisioning and port forwarding

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 9200, guest: 9200
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.memory = 2048
    v.cpus = 1
    v.name = "ES-2.x"
  end
end