Tools needed?

  • Terminal
  • Editor
  • Virtualbox
  • Vagrant

How we do it?

  • Check that vagrant already installed

    $ vagrant --version

  • Initiate

    $ vagrant init

    This command will generate Vagrantfile

  • Configure the Vagrantfile

    Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # define
  config.vm.define "playground-ubuntu" do |ubuntu|
    ubuntu.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64" # image
    ubuntu.vm.hostname = "dadossae" # hostname

    ubuntu.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
      vb.gui = false
      vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"] # fast http
      vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 1024] # ram
      vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "playground-ubuntu18"] # name of virtualbox
    end
  end
end

  • Launch VM

    $ vagrant up

    VM will up on VirtualBox

  • SSH into VM

    $ vagrant ssh

    or this command

    $ vagrant ssh playground-ubuntu

  • Stop the VM

    $ vagrant halt

    or this command

    $ vagrant halt playground-ubuntu

  • Destroy the VM

    $ vagrant destroy

    or this command

    $ vagrant destroy playground-ubuntu

References