Vagrant prerequisites

Why Vagrant?

• Vagrant allows you to programmatically spin up a Virtual Machine from a template VM (think .iso) to a configured VM (think post OS installer). Post install being all the things you would have to configure during a distribution setup (networking, users, etc)
• You can easily share these Vagrant configurations amongst your team
• You can configure Vagrant to bring up more than one machine in a single "vagrant up" command
• You can script post install actions (e.g. apt-get install apache2)

Common Vagrant commands

• vagrant up - starts and provisions the vagrant environment
• vagrant halt - stops the vagrant machine
• vagrant status - outputs status of the vagrant machine
• vagrant global-status - outputs status Vagrant environments for this user
• vagrant destroy - stops and deletes all traces of the vagrant machine
• vagrant resume - resume a suspended vagrant machine
• vagrant suspend - suspends the machine
• vagrant -h - help

Prerequisites for OS X

1. Install Virtualbox
2. Install Vagrant

If you do not have Apple Xcode installed:

1. Install Git

2. Place Git in the PATH of your shell

3. Create/edit your bash_profile

   vim ~/.bash_profile

4. Add the following:

   PATH=/usr/local/git/bin:$PATH
   export PATH

5. Reload your bash_profile

   source ~/.bash_profile