Vagrant is a great tool for creating local development machine, the machine can easily create, destroy and then recreate again with just command line.
Vagrant is one of the tool for devops, you definitely want this on your xubuntu if you are a devops or some one who responsible for operations in the software development team.
To install vagrant on xubuntu is pretty easy, all you have to do is run this simple command
Vagrant can't work alone, vagrant is a wrapper around virtual machine, by default vagrant works with virtualbox as the virtual machine provider, therefore you need also install virtualbox if you want to play with vagrant.
List of vagrant commands
sudo apt-get install vagrant
Vagrant can't work alone, vagrant is a wrapper around virtual machine, by default vagrant works with virtualbox as the virtual machine provider, therefore you need also install virtualbox if you want to play with vagrant.
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
List of vagrant commands
| the command | what for? |
|---|---|
| box | manages boxes: installation, removal, etc. |
| destroy | stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine |
| global-status | outputs status Vagrant environments for this user |
| halt | stops the vagrant machine |
| help | shows the help for a subcommand |
| init | initializes a new Vagrant environment by creating a Vagrantfile |
| login | log in to HashiCorp's Atlas |
| package | packages a running vagrant environment into a box |
| plugin | manages plugins: install, uninstall, update, etc. |
| port | displays information about guest port mappings |
| powershell | connects to machine via powershell remoting |
| provision | provisions the vagrant machine |
| push | deploys code in this environment to a configured destination |
| rdp | connects to machine via RDP |
| reload | restarts vagrant machine, loads new Vagrantfile configuration |
| resume | resume a suspended vagrant machine |
| snapshot | manages snapshots: saving, restoring, etc. |
| ssh | connects to machine via SSH |
| ssh-config | outputs OpenSSH valid configuration to connect to the machine |
| status | outputs status of the vagrant machine |
| suspend | suspends the machine |
| up | starts and provisions the vagrant environment |
| version | prints current and latest Vagrant version |
