Vagrant is an excellent open source tool for managing virtual machines. Vagrant provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.
##Getting Started For the quick-start, we'll bring up a development machine on VirtualBox because it is free and works on all major platforms. Vagrant can work with almost any system such as [OpenStack] (https://www.openstack.org/), [VMware] (https://www.vmware.com/), [Docker] (https://docs.docker.com/), etc.
First, make sure your development machine has VirtualBox installed. After this, download and install the appropriate Vagrant package for your OS.
To build your first virtual environment:
vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64;
vagrant up
Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. A box can be used by anyone on any platform that Vagrant supports to bring up an identical working environment. Following for finding boxes.
##Vagrant Commands List
vagrant init [box-name] [box-url]
Initializes the current directory to be a Vagrant environment with.vagrant directory if does not already exist.
vagrant up
For the starting the machine to create an enviroment.
vagrant status
For the showing machine status that is open or not.
vagrant halt
For the closeing the machine.
vagrant suspend
For the suspends a machine (remembers state).
vagrant provision
For the forceing reprovisioning of the machine
vagrant reload
For the restarting the machine with loads the new Vagrantfile configuration.
vagrant ssh
For the connecting to machine via SSH
vagrant share
For the sharing your VM and provides you with the public URL
vagrant login
Log in to HashiCorp's Atlas on your computer
vagrant destroy
For the deleteing the machine.
vagrant -v
For the knowing the version
vagrant global-status
For the knowing state of all active environments on the system for the currently logged in user.
vagrant resume
For this resumeing a suspended machine (vagrant up works just fine for this as well)
vagrant reload --provision
For the restarting the machine and force provisioning.
vagrant push -- Yes
For the configuring to deploy code.