Fagrant

Vagrant is slow, bloated and has quite some issues as a result. Inspired by Bocker, I created fagrant as a "100 lines of code" script to implement the functionality of Vagrant that I mostly use. If you're a very light Vagrant user, like me, then you might actually find this useful.

Top definition: Fagrant

A fake vagrant.

"Jeromy is too lazy to work 9-5, so he puts on dirty clothes and stands on a corner begging for change."

"That's pretty lame."

"Dude, he makes more than minimum wage as a fagrant."

Source: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fagrant

Functionality

Currently, the following functionality is implemented in fagrant.

Creating a VM cloned from an existing VM
Using an existing VM as is with fagrant
Provisioning using Puppet (Apply)
SSH into the VM
Mounts current working directory on the VM
Halting the VM
Destroying the VM
Reverting the VM to last snapshot

How to use

For ease of use, fagrant utilises the same vocabulary as Vagrant. It uses the current working directory to initialise the environment (i.e. creating a FagrantFile) and shares the directory with the virtual machine as a shared folder.

To create a clone from an existing VM in your Virtualbox (see below to create a fagrant VM):

$ fagrant init <VM name>
$ fagrant up
$ fagrant ssh

As a feature for lazy people as myself, when SSH'ing as the vagrant user - Yes, vagrant - the insecure vagrant private key is used to perform passwordless login.

Provisioning the VM using a Puppet manifest is possible as well. Just store your manifest at manifest/default.pp and execute:

$ fagrant provision

Once you're finished with your work, shut down the VM as such (use --force to pull the "plug"):

$ fagrant halt

Or delete the VM all together:

$ fagrant destroy

Other features

Because your time is valuable, fagrant allows the usage of an existing VM without cloning, which omits the time consuming cloning step.

$ echo "VM name" > FagrantFile
$ fagrant up
$ fagrant ssh root

Notice that we can login with other users as well...

When you're finished, just revert the fagrant VM to its original state by rolling back to the last snapshot:

$ fagrant destroy --revert

Creating fagrant compatible VMs

Create a fagrant user (and give sudo rights)
Install fagrant public key into VM
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
Add fagrant user to vboxsf group
Create directory /fagrant/ and set default mount point to /fagrant/
Load VirtualBox modules on boot
Enable auto-mounting of shared folder on login (put it in .bashrc)
Install puppet for provisioning

See makeFagrantCompatible.sh as an example of commands to execute. They're pretty similar to what one has to do to create a Vagrant box.

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