Vagrant

Vagrant#

Vagrant is a wrapper for VirtualBox. It allows you to interact with your virtual box using a Vagrantfile and a set of commands, similar to Docker.

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBreXjkizgo​

Installing #

  1. To use Vagrant, you will first need to install VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads​

  2. Install Vagrant from here: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vagrant/getting-started-index?in=vagrant/getting-started​

Getting Started & Basic Commands #

To create a box:

vagrant init <BOX_NAME>

For example:

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64

To run the box:

vagrant up

To shut down the box:

vagrant suspend

To resume the box:

vagrant resume

To remove the box permanently:

vagrant destroy

If you update your Vagrantfile and want to reload:

vagrant reload

SSH into Box #

You can SSH into your box:

vagrant ssh

This will bring up a terminal that you can use. For example, you might want to install git:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git

Vagrantfile #

Memory and CPU Settings #

To configure memory and CPU used by your virtual box:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.memory = 2048
    vb.cpus = 4
end

Folder Settings #

You will probably also want to use data from your local machine. To do this:

config.vm.synced_folder "path/to/local/folder", "path/to/vagrant/folder"

The path/to/local/folder can be absolute, or relative to the location of the Vagrantfile. The path/to/vagrant/folder is where you want the data to be added in your box.

Startup/Provision Settings #

When you start your box, you can install packages/run commands:

config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL    
    apt-get update
    apt-get install -y apache2
SHELL

If you have a lot of packages to install or commands to run, you may want to put them in a separate file:

config.vm.provision "shell", path: "install.sh"

Running MacOS #

In order to run MacOS, you may need to reinstall.

  1. Clear csrutil and restart.

sudo su
csrutil clear
reboot

2. Uninstall from the official installer (you may have to re-download the installer if you deleted it, as the uninstall file is in there).

3. Reinstall.

4. Restart your computer.

5. Install Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack

6. Install vagrant-vbguest:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest