In addition to that, the operating system installed into the Virtual Machines requires Internet access to download software packages to be installed (such as RPM from online yum/dnf repositories). Vagrant requires access to the Internet to download Virtual Machine images – these are called Vagrant boxes in Vagrant's terms. The only thing that you must really take care of manually doing is to add VirtualBox's path to the PATH system wide environment variable.įor example, on Windows it must be set as shown by the box on the right: by doing so you are able to issue commands such as VBoxManage without having to specify the full path of the folder containing it. Installing both of them is straightforward, so I think that it does not make sense to explain anything that is as difficult as hitting the 'next'or the'I agree' buttons several times.

go to and download and install HashiCorp's Vagrant for the platform you are using.

go to and download and install Oracle's Virtualbox for the platform you are using.

To keep on the free of charge side, and to have an easy to setup solution suitable to every platform, we install Vagrant with the Oracle Virtualbox provider:

If necessary, the vagrantfile can be shared and versioned using the company SCM and even integrated in the toolchain. developers to easily create virtual environments with all the components necessary to perform the integration tests of the software they are developing, without interfering with anybody since the environment is isolated and local to his/hers workstation.system engineers to mock-up virtual environments to test installation of new software or to perform proof of concepts.

Vagrant processes this manifest file and executes the directives stated into the file by connecting to hypervisors using a component called provider: Virtualbox and KVM are free providers, but there are also commercial ones like VMWare provider. Vagrant is ' a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow': this means that you can define a whole environment made of several virtual machines within a single manifest file called vagrantfile - the syntax of the manifest follows Ruby coding.

A tool for quickly mock-up environments.

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