Vagrant Cheatsheet

Vagrant commands

• vagrant init, destroy
• vagrant up, halt
• vagrant suspend, resume
• vagrant provision - manually triggger, else only happens on UP
• vagrant reload - remember this whenever config changes made
• vagrant login - log into vagrantcloud (Atlas)
• vagrant share - do form folder with Vagrantfile
• vagrant share --ssh (password protected TLS share, expires ~ 1hr)
• vagrant connect --ssh name-of-share (client does this to connect to your vbox)
• vagrant status
• vagrant global-status (list ALL vms status anywhere on system)

Virtualbox commands (ignore if using vmware or parallels)

• vboxmanage list vms
• vboxmanage list runningvms

Reusing provisioning

• Shell / File / CM Tools (puppet, chef, ansible, salt, docker)
• these provisioner can be mixed and matched, run in order specified
• provisioning runs on UP only, or vagrant provision, vagrant reload --provision
• vagrant up --no-provision
• box is pre-provisioned with OS and tools
• create your own boxes with vagrant or packer
• vagrant box add, list, remove
• use dpkg (Debian) to check if installed before apt-get installing
• use command to check if npm module installed

Vagrant Synced Folders

• rsync - use rsync-auto on vagrant box to watch for changes
• NFS, plugins can be used too

Vagrant Packages

• vagrant package <vmname> --output <boxname>
• only works with virtualbox VM currently
• vagrant box
• use packages, wildcards: vagrant up /mongo*/

example files

• Vagrantfile (nginx),
• Vagrantfile (mongodb)
• provision.sh (nginx),
• provision.sh (mongodb)
• puppet manifest (standalone server)
• puppet manifest (replica set)