Vagrant
Here is your Vagrant Cheat-Sheet with additional sections included:
🛡️ Vagrant Cheat-Sheet
Vagrant is an open-source tool for building and maintaining virtualized development environments. It provides a consistent workflow for managing virtual machines (VMs) across multiple platforms. Below is a cheat-sheet with essential Vagrant commands for general management, VM provisioning, and box management.
🔍 Overview
Product Type: Virtual Machine Management Tool
Focus: Streamlining the process of creating and managing reproducible development environments.
🧠 General Management
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
vagrant status | Outputs the status of the current Vagrant machine |
vagrant global-status | Outputs the status of all Vagrant machines |
vagrant global-status --prune | Prunes invalid entries from the global status list |
🖥️ Managing VMs
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
vagrant init | Initializes Vagrant with a Vagrantfile and .vagrant directory (requires specifying a base image in the Vagrantfile before running vagrant up) |
vagrant up | Starts the Vagrant environment (provisions only on the first vagrant up) |
vagrant halt | Stops the Vagrant machine |
vagrant suspend | Suspends the virtual machine, saving its state |
vagrant resume | Resumes a suspended machine (can also use vagrant up for this) |
vagrant ssh | Connects to the machine via SSH |
vagrant ssh <BOXNAME> | SSH into a specific box by name (useful if you have named the box in your Vagrantfile) |
vagrant destroy | Stops and deletes the Vagrant machine, removing all traces |
vagrant destroy -f | Same as above, but skips the confirmation prompt |
⚙️ Provisioning VMs
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
vagrant provision | Forces reprovisioning of the Vagrant machine |
vagrant provision --debug | Enables debug mode for more detailed provisioning output |
| `vagrant up --provision | tee provision.log` |
📦 Manage Boxes
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
vagrant box list | Lists all installed Vagrant boxes on your computer |
vagrant box add <BOXNAME> <BOXURL> | Downloads and adds a box image to your machine |
vagrant box outdated | Checks for updates for the installed boxes |
vagrant box remove <BOXNAME> | Removes a specific box from the machine |
vagrant package | Packages a running VirtualBox environment into a reusable box |
🌐 Vagrant with WSL2
Vagrant can also be run inside your Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) environment. This allows you to leverage Vagrant's features directly within a Linux-like environment on Windows. For a tutorial on installing and using Vagrant with WSL2 and VirtualBox, check out this guide.
For more advanced usage with Vagrant and VirtualBox, refer to the official Vagrant Documentation.
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🏷️ Tags
#vagrant
#virtualization
#dev-environment
#vm-management
#wsl2
#vagrant-boxes
#provisioning
You can explore more Vagrant-related topics here:
Vagrant Basics: Learn the fundamentals of using Vagrant.
Vagrant Boxes: Detailed documentation on working with Vagrant Boxes.
Vagrant Provisioning: A deeper dive into provisioning your VMs with Vagrant.