Vagrant CLI cheatsheet

Here is the Cheatsheet to work with Vagrant. Be sure that you are in the same directory as the Vagrantfile when running these commands!

Creating VM

• vagrant init -- Initialize Vagrant with a Vagrantfile and ./.vagrant directory, using no specified base image. Before you can do vagrant up, you'll need to specify a base image in the Vagrantfile.
• vagrant init <boxpath> -- Initialize Vagrant with a specific box. To find a box, go to the public Vagrant box catalog. When you find one you like, just replace it's name with boxpath. For example, vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64.

VM lifecycle commands

• vagrant up -- starts vagrant environment (also provisions only on the FIRST vagrant up)
• vagrant resume -- resume a suspended machine (vagrant up works just fine for this as well)
• vagrant halt – it will halts the current running image.
• Vagrant suspend – It will suspends the current running machine and it will store the current state of the VM.
• vagrant provision -- forces reprovisioning of the vagrant machine
• vagrant reload -- restarts vagrant machine, loads new Vagrantfile configuration
• vagrant reload --provision -- restart the virtual machine and force provisioning

Getting into VM

• vagrant ssh -- connects to machine via SSH
• vagrant ssh <boxname> -- If you give your box a name in your Vagrantfile, you can ssh into it with boxname. Works from any directory.

Cleaning up a VM

• vagrant destroy -- stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine
• vagrant destroy -f -- same as above, without confirmation

Box management

• vagrant box list -- see a list of all installed boxes on your computer
• vagrant box add <name> <url> -- download a box image to your computer
• vagrant box outdated -- check for updates vagrant box update
• vagrant boxes remove <name> -- deletes a box from the machine
• vagrant package -- packages a running virtualbox env in a reusable box

Saving progress

vagrant snapshot save [options] [vm-name] <name> -- vm-name is often default. Allows us to save so that we can rollback at a later time

Additional Tips

• vagrant -v -- get the vagrant version
• vagrant status -- outputs status of the vagrant machine
• vagrant global-status -- outputs status of all vagrant machines
• vagrant global-status --prune -- same as above, but prunes invalid entries
• vagrant provision --debug -- use the debug flag to increase the verbosity of the output
• vagrant push -- yes, vagrant can be configured to deploy code!
• vagrant up --provision | tee provision.log -- Runs vagrant up, forces provisioning and logs all output to a file

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