Vagrant

Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments, sandboxed in a virtual machine. Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and brings the idea of disposable compute resources down to the desktop.

Installation

Vagrant can be installed on Arch as shown below:

pacman -S vagrant

Moreover, we need to install a vm provider, such as virtualbox, to be able to run a vm on the system:

pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules

Basic CLI

Command	Description
vargrant -h	Show help.
vagrant init	Create Vagrantfile in current working directory.
vagrant up	Starts and provisions the vagrant environment.
vagrant ssh	SSH into the VM.
vagrant global-status	Outputs status Vagrant environments for this user.
vagrant status	Outputs status of the vagrant machine.
vagrant package	Packages a running vagrant environment into a box.
vagranr reload	Restarts vagrant machine, loads new Vagrantfile configuration.
vagrant resume	Resume a suspended vagrant machine.
vagtant halt	Stops the vagrant machine.
vagrant snapshot	Manages snapshots: saving, restoring, etc.
vagrant suspend	Suspend the virtual machine.
vagrant destroy	Stops and deletes the virtual machine.
vagrant box	Manages boxes: installation, removal, etc.

Basic Workflow

Git clone project with a Vagrantfile
cd into project dir
Run vagrant up to start the vm
Do some stuff
Stop the vm

git clone https://github.com/pro-vagrant/songs-app-django.git
cd songs-app-django.git
vagrant up

To check the status, we can simply run:

vagrant status

Alternatively, we can also use the global-status command to get an overview of all running vms on the system:

vagrant global-status

We can also ssh into the vm:

vagrant ssh

For stopping the vm we can run the halt command:

vagrant halt

Examples

Create a new Ubuntu Artful VM

vagrant init ubuntu/artful64

Create a new Ubuntu Bionic VM

vagrant init ubuntu/bionic64

Running the VM

vagrant up

SHH into the VM

vagrant ssh

Stopping the VM

vagrant halt