

=> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking. => default: Importing base box 'centos/7'. => default: Adding box 'centos/7' (v1710.01) for provider: virtualboxĭefault: Progress: 20% (Rate: 8793k/s, Estimated time remaining: 0:00:30)/Us=> default: Successfully added box 'centos/7' (v1710.01) for 'virtualbox'! => default: Loading metadata for box 'centos/7' => default: Box 'centos/7' could not be found. Dans-MacBook-Pro:CentOS dan$ vagrant upīringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider.
VAGRANT BOX INSTALL
Now it is time to download and install the CentOS Vagrant box, for this we need just one command vagrant up. This is the quick and dirty way to bring up a box in Vagrant without adding any additional configuration to it. Inside this Vagrantfile there are just three uncommented lines but keep in mind you can configure many other options such as networking, providers and memory: nfigure("2") do |config| This command creates a file in my working directory called “Vagrantfile”. Now, I can initialize the box with the command vagrant init: vagrant init centos/7 To interact with this particular box with Vagrant commands, you must either use the id or we must be in this directory. First, I create a directory that will hold the Vagrant configuration data. A quick search for “CentOS” on Vagrant Cloud leads me to the box here.įor the sake of simplicity, I will show you a very quick way to bring up a Vagrant box. Here, I want to install a CentOS virtual machine. 🍺 virtualbox was successfully installed!Īt this point Vagrant and Virtualbox are installed and we are ready to download and install some boxes. => installer: The install was successful. => installer: Package name is Oracle VM VirtualBox => Package installers may write to any location options such as -appdir are i
VAGRANT BOX PASSWORD
=> Running installer for virtualbox your password may be necessary. => Verifying checksum for Cask virtualbox => brew cask install caskroom/cask/virtualbox Wow that was easy! Now we just need to install Virtualbox, which we also can do with homebrew: Dans-MacBook-Pro:~ dan$ brew install caskroom/cask/virtualbox
VAGRANT BOX UPGRADE
=> installer: The upgrade was successful. => Package installers may write to any location options such as -appdir are ignored. => Running installer for vagrant your password may be necessary. => brew cask install caskroom/cask/vagrant Dans-MacBook-Pro:CentOS7 dan$ brew install caskroom/cask/vagrant If you have not used homebrew before, I highly recommend. You can install Vagrant from its official site here, but I prefer to use homebrew on my Mac to install packages when possible. The intentions of this article is to get your feet a little wet with Vagrant, but as you dive deeper into the tool, you will find you can do so much more. Since Vagrant boxes are virtual machines, your local platform actually does not matter at all. I will demonstrate installing the box on a Mac, but you can use Vagrant with Windows and Linux as well as your host. In this article, I will walk you through installing your first Vagrant box from Vagrant cloud, which is a public repository of boxes you can install for free, and installing CentOS on it. Even better, Vagrant can create your virtual machines on Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V, AWS and more. For instance, have you ever wanted to quickly bring up a test VM to test out a script on? Well with Vagrant you can do that with a few commands. Now, that sounds like something that developers would love and they certainly do, but IT professionals can leverage Vagrant too, especially in DevOps.
VAGRANT BOX PORTABLE
The motivation behind using Vagrant is creating reproducible, portable virtual environments and can quickly be brought up and disposed of at will. Vagrant is one of those tools that you may have heard about before but just have not used yet, but once you decide to use it, it will probably end up in your tool belt.
