01 – What is vagrant?
Vagrant is an amazing tool for managing virtual machines via a simple to use command line interface. With a simple vagrant up you can be working in a clean environment based on a standard template. These standard templates are called base boxes, and this website is simply a list of boxes people have been nice enough to make publicly available.
02 – What do I need to install vagrant?
a. Install Virtual box of Oracle
03 – How do I actually run vagrant?
Boxes from http://www.vagrantbox.es/ run them as follows:
Open command prompt at windows or bash shell at linux. At the command prompt write the following:
a. c:\>vagrant box add {title} {url}
b. c:\>vagrant init {title}
c. c:\>vagrant up
d. Open virtual box and run the newly installed machine.
Notes: Title is the title of the vagrant machine you want to download and Url is the URL you are downloading the VM (box) from.
Box from https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search run them as follows:
a. Create a directory for new VM (virtual machine).
b. Open command prompt.
c. c:\>vagrant init <Name of Box>
c. c:\>vagrant up [optional <–provider virtualbox>]
04 – Video about Vagrant
05 – More info about Vagrant
Vagrant website: https://www.vagrantup.com/
