Basic Commands

# Shows the running boxes
vagrant status 
# Shutdown a box
vagrant halt

init

The init initialize the vagrant box and create a new vagrantfile in the current directory.

vagrant init centos/7

up

To start the vagrant box

vagrant up

ssh

To jump into the vagrant box you can use ssh command. It takes care of the ssh keys and all of thoses stuff.

vagrant ssh

Snapshot

This helps us to rollback at a later time.

vagrant snapshot save <option> <vm-name> <name>

Boxes

# To list all of installed boxes
vagrant box list

Vagrant File

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
	# The image name or the box name
	config.vm.box = "centos/6"
	# You can config networking
	config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.58.111"
	# You can create shared directory and map it to the box
	config.vm.synced_folder "../data", '/vagrant_data'
	# You can customize the hardware allocated to the box
	config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
		vb.memory = "1024"
	end
	# You can add some boot up script
	config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
		apt-get update
		apt-get install -y apache2
	SHELL
end