Vagrant Getting Started Guide

A run through of the Vagrant getting started guide/tutorial. Vagrant allows setting up an isolated developer environment very easily.

No more of the common "it works on my machine" developer problems.

Project Setup

vagrant init

this will create a Vagrantfile

Add Vagrant Box

vagrant box add hashicorp/precise64

Fire Up environmnet

vagrant up

above command is the most popular/used command!

SSH onto the environment

vagrant ssh

Teardown

vagrant suspend

to temporary suspend it and resume it with:

vagrant resume

or halt it

vagrant halt

once finished can completely get rid of it

vagrant destroy

Automated Provisioning

Vagrant will automatically install software configured in a provisioning shell script on VM bootup.

When changing Vagrantfile you can then use reload to reload the configuration

vagrant reload

or to tell Vagrant to provision it again

vagrant provision

Network Options - Port Forwarding

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567

telling to forward onto VM guest machine port from host machine port

other network options include:

• assign a static IP address to the guest machine
• to bridge the guest machine onto an existing network
• etc...

Sample Configuration

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise64"
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 4567
end

Shell script used for provisioning

#!/usr/bin/env bash

apt-get update
apt-get install -y apache2

if ! [ -L /var/www ]; then
  rm -rf /var/www
  ln -fs /vagrant /var/www
fi

above script installs Apache Web Server

now, you can browse to http://127.0.0.1:4567

Vagrant Share

Sharing your Vagrant environment

Vagrant share setting up when running vagrant share command

The Vagrant Share website:

Browse to the shared vagrant URL link on browser: