Getting started with Vagrant

vagrant-getting-started

# If you are on a VM (like me), I did the following on Peppermint 5 VM on VirtualBox.

sudo apt-get install vagrant virtualbox

# Make a directory named demo.

mkdir demo
cd demo

# add vagrant virtual box that can be used to initialize VM instances
# it might take some time to download 700 MB virtual box image

vagrant box add trusty32 http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-i386-vagrant-disk1.box

# list added or available boxes
# should list something like:
# trusty32 (virtualbox)

vagrant box list

# initialize a new box

vagrant init trusty32

# fire up the virtual box or even restart it, issue:

vagrant up

# you can check the status of virtual boxes

vagrant status

# you can ssh in to the box as follows

vagrant ssh

# you can destroy a virtual box as follows

vagrant destroy

# reload a virtual box with provisions

vagrant reload --provision


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# https://serversforhackers.com/an-ansible-tutorial
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