To demonstrate this, I'm going to create a new folder called vagrant_project where you will keep your Vagrantfile and any provisioning instructions. To get started with your first virtual server, you only need two commands vagrant init and vagrant up Setting up Vagrant and launching the first serverġ. The installation process is well documented on the above link. You can download and install Vagrant by navigating to and selecting your OS. Both Vagrant and VirtualBox work well on Windows, Mac and Linux. Vagrant comes with out of the box support for VirtualBox, a free, local virtualisation environment product. Vagrant helps build and manage virtual machine environments in a single workflow with a focus on automated provisioning. Vagrant can do all of these tasks with just a few commands. As I mentioned earlier, conventionally, we will use tools like VMware workstation or Virtual Box to perform such tasks but it can take quite take a while to create, modify or destroy them.

Recently, I came across a great piece of an application called 'Vagrant' which helps spinning up packaged Linux virtual machines feel like a breeze. This can be time consuming and repetitive. I usually end up downloading Ubuntu/CentOS ISO, adding it to VirtualBox, configuring the IP and then installing the required packages. There were many situations in the past where I had to quickly set up a Syslog server or a Radius server to test and troubleshoot an issue on my Network.

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