Vagrant creates and configures virtual development environments. It can be seen as a higher-level wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM and Linux Containers (LXC), and around configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, Salt and Puppet.
Vagrant is not just about creating VMs, it is about automating the work of setting up development environments for our projects. Also, we can check Vagrantfiles into source control with each project, so the environment is essentially stored with the code, without having to find a way to store a VM itself.
Install VirtualBox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Install Vagrant
sudo apt-get install vagrant
OR Install Vagrant from here
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
mkdir vagrant_test
cd vagrant_test
vagrant init
This will create a Vagrantfile. As said Vagrantfile is config file for the virtual machine.
Next download an image.
vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64
you can browse for available boxes here : https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
This stores the box under a specific name so that multiple Vagrant environments can re-use it. Just like VM templates
[Note : The syntax for the vagrant box add subcommand is changed with the version 1.5, due to the Vagrant Cloud introduction.
vagrant box add {title} {url}
http://www.vagrantbox.es/]
Next change your Vagrantfile contens as below.
config.vm.network : This allows to access any servers running on the box to be available to the network. You can configure public ip if you need.
Next , we set number of cpus 2 , also memory to 4GB.
Now bring up the box using following command
vagrant up
We can connect to the machine using
vagrant ssh
To destroy VM, we can use following command
vagrant destroy
Also note that vagrant halt will shut down the machine gracefully. And if you make any changes to Vagrantfile, to update the box we can use vagrant reload command.
Vagrant is not just about creating VMs, it is about automating the work of setting up development environments for our projects. Also, we can check Vagrantfiles into source control with each project, so the environment is essentially stored with the code, without having to find a way to store a VM itself.
Install VirtualBox
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Install Vagrant
sudo apt-get install vagrant
OR Install Vagrant from here
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
mkdir vagrant_test
cd vagrant_test
vagrant init
This will create a Vagrantfile. As said Vagrantfile is config file for the virtual machine.
Next download an image.
vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64
you can browse for available boxes here : https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search
This stores the box under a specific name so that multiple Vagrant environments can re-use it. Just like VM templates
[Note : The syntax for the vagrant box add subcommand is changed with the version 1.5, due to the Vagrant Cloud introduction.
vagrant box add {title} {url}
http://www.vagrantbox.es/]
Next change your Vagrantfile contens as below.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "xxx.xxx.xx.xx"
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.cpus = 2
vb.memory = "4096"
end
end
config.vm.network : This allows to access any servers running on the box to be available to the network. You can configure public ip if you need.
Next , we set number of cpus 2 , also memory to 4GB.
Now bring up the box using following command
vagrant up
We can connect to the machine using
vagrant ssh
To destroy VM, we can use following command
vagrant destroy
Also note that vagrant halt will shut down the machine gracefully. And if you make any changes to Vagrantfile, to update the box we can use vagrant reload command.
