Vagrant

Windows setup¶

• vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
• Image should have guest additions or it will not share folder from windows inside the VM

Internal Network¶

Go to VirtualBox → File → Host Network Manager → Check the enabled network DHCP address

Windows Features Turn On Off¶

Disable "virtual machine platform" and "windows hypervisor platform

Installation¶

Install same version of Vagrant in Windows and WSL Verify vagrant --version in both to match In windows try downloading a box and start vagrant up –provider=virtualbox

Vagrant¶

Init with a image in vagrant cloud¶

vagrant init hashicorp/precise64

Start the vm¶

vagrant up

SSH into the vm¶

vagrant ssh

Hibernate the vm¶

vagrant suspend

Check the status of vagrant vm¶

vagrant status

Stop the vm¶

vagrant halt

Clean up the vm¶

vagrant destroy

1. Get Status of Vagrant Machines on host

   vagrant global-status
   

2. Get SSH Settings

   vagrant ssh-config
   

3. Reload Virtual Machine

   vagrant reload
   

Managing Vagrant boxes¶

Download a box to a machine¶

vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64 vagrant box add centos/8

List boxes on machine¶

vagrant box list

Update an existing box on a machine¶

vagrant box outdated vagrant box update

Run a downloaded box → cd into a folder¶

vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 vagrant up

Remove a downloaded box from a machine¶

vagrant box remove ubuntu/trusty64

Finding boxes¶

vagrantboxes.es & vagrantcloud → find a box and copy the url vagrant box add vagrant init vagrant up

Using Plugins¶

List existing plugins¶

vagrant plugin list

Install Plugins¶

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Update Plugin version¶

vagrant plugin update vagrant-vbguest

Update all plugins¶

vagrant plugin update

Remove Plugins¶

vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-vbguest

Adding services to startup boot¶

sudo chkconfig –add httpd sudo chkconfig httpd on sudo service httpd stop

Create symbolic link which will serve file from local on vagrant machine, ensure index html file is there in local root¶

cd /var/www/html cd .. && rm -rf html sudo ln -s /vagrant /var/www/html sudo service httpd start

Packaging Vagrant after baking¶

Imp that VM is running, check status¶

vagrant status vagrant package –output .box vagrant box add .box

Custom base box packaging after customization / hardening¶

vagrant package –base

Switching of guest additions checks if the plugin is available in local¶

Add line in config¶

config.vbguest.auto_update = false

Adding a file from local machine not in the project folder to the vm¶

config.vm.provision "file", source: "~/vagrant/files/git-files", destination: "~/.gitconfig"

If VM is running when above provisioning is done, it is not reflected¶

vagrant provision

Adding software at provisioning¶

config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "yum install -y git nano"

Adding custom scripts not in the project folder to the vm¶

config.vm.provision "shell", path: "~/vagrant/scripts/provision.sh"

To restart vm¶

sudo shutdown -r now

Restart service¶

sudo systemctl restart sshd.service

Update centos kernal¶

sudo yum update kernel*

Check and delete old kernels¶

rpm -qa kernel sudo package-cleanup –old-kernels –count=2

Debugging Vagrant¶

During Vagrant Up your Windows system tries to connect to SSH. If you type on your command line:¶

set VAGRANT_LOG=INFO

Debug SSH¶

set VAGRANT_PREFER_SYSTEM_BIN=0 vagrant ssh –debug - Running this command will show which identity file is being used

vagrant ssh-config | grep IdentityFile