03. Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past.

Installing

Before we can get started using Vagrant, we need to first install it. So, please follow the instructions found here based on your OS.

Installing - Hypervisors

When using Vagrant (like we saw in Packer), you may at some point run into issues when you have more than one Hypervisor installed.

Boxes

Adding

For our learning, we will be adding the box we built using Packer back in 02. Packer. So, let's go ahead and do this now.

NOTE: Replace the 1595459323 with whatever matches your build.

vagrant box add local/ubuntu1804 ubuntu1804-virtualbox-1595459323.box

==> box: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
==> box: Adding box 'local/ubuntu1804' (v0) for provider:
    box: Unpacking necessary files from: file:///Users/larrysmithjr/Git_Projects/Personal/GitHub/mrlesmithjr/hashi-learning/learning/Packer/ubuntu1804-virtualbox-1595459323.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'local/ubuntu1804' (v0) for 'virtualbox'!

We've successfully added our first Vagrant box! And as we mentioned previously, we will be using this image for the remainder of this learning.

However, before we move on, let's add another box.

vagrant box add mrlesmithjr/centos7

▶ vagrant box add mrlesmithjr/centos7
==> box: Loading metadata for box 'mrlesmithjr/centos7'
    box: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/mrlesmithjr/centos7
==> box: Adding box 'mrlesmithjr/centos7' (v1588339341) for provider: libvirt
    box: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/mrlesmithjr/boxes/centos7/versions/1588339341/providers/libvirt.box
Download redirected to host: vagrantcloud-files-production.s3.amazonaws.com
==> box: Successfully added box 'mrlesmithjr/centos7' (v1588339341) for 'libvirt'!

We've now just successfully added a new box from Vagrant Cloud for CentOS 7 using the libvirt provider.

Listing

Now that we've added our first box, we can get a quick list of boxes currently available by executing:

vagrant box list

▶ vagrant box list
local/ubuntu1804    (virtualbox, 0)
mrlesmithjr/centos7 (libvirt, 1588339341)

Conclusion

Now that we've successfully added a few Vagrant boxes, we're ready to move onto consuming the one we created with Packer. However, before we move on. We need to ensure that we are in the project root to properly leverage our scenarios.

NOTE: Assuming that we are still in the learning/Packer directory.

cd ../../