Sample Workshop Excercise

README.md

Vagrant Basic Commands

Goal

Getting familiar with the Vagrant commandline interface

Excercise!

• list the subcommands vagrant has
• show the help / usage instructions for vagrant init
• create a new Vagrantfile in the playground
• check if vagrant up already brings up a VM
• list the available base boxes
• fix the Vagrantfile by adding a base box and try to bring up the VM again
• check the status of the VM
• open the VirtualBox GUI and check if you can see the VM running here as well
• configure the display name for the VM in VirtualBox GUI
• ssh into the VM and check on which operation system you are
• leave the ssh session and destroy the VM
• check the status again via Vagrant and VirtualBox

Hints

• run vagrant -h to see available commands
• have a look at the Vagrant CLI documentation
• see here how to configure virtualbox specific settings (like the display name for VirtualBox GUI)
• read more about base boxes in the vagrant docs
• you can find base boxes at the opscode bento project or via vagrantcloud

solution-README.md

I ran the following commands:

• vagrant -h to list the available subcommands
• vagrant init -h to show the help for vagrant init
• vagrant init --minimal to create the Vagrantfile (don't like the comments)
• ran vagrant up but it failed :-(
• vagrant box list to list the available base boxes
• added "opscode_ubuntu-12.04-i386_provisionerless" as the config.vm.box
• ran vagrant up and it worked! :-)
• vagrant status tells me that it's the default VM and that it is running
• opened VirtualBox from the start menu, and saw a VM named "solution_default_14037673" running
• set the display name to "00-vagrant-basic-commands" in the virtualbox specific provider settings (see here: https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/virtualbox/configuration.html)
• vagrant ssh brought me right into the VM, cat /etc/lsb-release shows me it's Ubuntu 12.04
• exit closed the ssh session, then I ran vagrant destroy -f to destroy the VM
• vagrant status says it's "not created" and I saw it disappear from VirtualBox when I destroyed it earlier

solution-Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  
  # name of the basebox to be used 
  config.vm.box = "opscode_ubuntu-12.04-i386_provisionerless"

  # setting the display name shown in the VirtualBox GUI
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.name = "00-vagrant-basic-commands"
  end
end