How do you make a Vagrant base box?

How to Create a Vagrant Base Box from an Existing One

  1. Choose a Box.
  2. Initialize and Start the Vagrant Box.
  3. SSH into the Box and Customize It.
  4. Make the Box as Small as possible.
  5. Repackage the VM into a New Vagrant Box.
  6. Add the Box into Your Vagrant Install.
  7. Initialize Your New Vagrant Box.
  8. Customize Your New Vagrantfile.

Is Vagrant dead?

Vagrant is far from dead, but it suffers from a couple of long-lasting issues, including the resource footprint of virtual machines created, the speed of sharing files between the host and virtual machine, and the speed of making configuration changes to virtual machines.

What is a box in Vagrant?

Boxes are the package format for Vagrant environments. A box can be used by anyone on any platform that Vagrant supports to bring up an identical working environment. The easiest way to use a box is to add a box from the publicly available catalog of Vagrant boxes.

How do you make Vagrantfile?

Creating a Vagrantfile

  1. Generate a Vagrantfile from an existing Skytap environment or template.
  2. Manually create a Vagrantfile.
  3. Customizing a Vagrantfile.
  4. Add a VM.
  5. Edit the VM hardware settings.
  6. Enable NFS synced folders.
  7. Enable port forwarding.
  8. Skytap-specific Vagrantfile settings.

How do I create a vagrant box image?

There are three ways to create and upload Vagrant Boxes to Vagrant Cloud….Creating Boxes via the Vagrant Cloud Web Interface

  1. Go to the Create Box page.
  2. Name the box and give it a simple description.
  3. Create your first version for the box.
  4. Create a provider for the box, matching the provider you need locally in Vagrant.

How do I SSH into a vagrant box?

Simply CMD-SHIFT-P then “Remote-SSH: Connect to Host…” and the ssh . config entry you just added is automatically listed – you simply select it and voila, vscode connects to your remote vagrant vm!

Does anybody still use Vagrant?

Vagrant still has a place in the world, but for many cases Docker is taking over. The prime reason that docker is what we’re using is that from dev instances of services to dropping a production container on your desktop it’s easy to test similar to what is shipping.

Where are vagrant boxes?

As mentioned in the docs, boxes are stored at: Mac OS X and Linux: ~/. vagrant. d/boxes.

Where can I find vagrant boxes?

Discover Vagrant Boxes

  • aws.
  • cloudstack.
  • digitalocean.
  • docker.
  • google.
  • hyperv.
  • libvirt.
  • lxc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASBRcMuCQw