Vagrant

Inspect Vagrant machine status.

Prevent updating VirtualBox Guest Additions on the guest system when using Vagrant.

Use specific Vagrant box version instead of the latest one.

Define multiple disks inside Vagrant using VirtualBox provider. It is not immediately obvious how to achieve it, but everything you need is there.

Display custom message after the vagrant machine is started.

Use vagrant provisioner to update SSH authorized_keys every time the virtual machine is started.

Configure Vagrant to ignore SSL certificate behind corporate proxy.

Configure the Vagrant virtual machine to use a specific proxy using the vagrant-proxyconf plugin.

Define the environment variable to use specific Vagrantfile.

I have already presented an easy way to build Vagrant Debian base box using qemu, but on some platforms it is better to use VirtualBox as it is not possible to use kvm accelerator.

It is time to look into the build process of Debian Vagrant box, create one using packer utility for creating machine and container images and alter the whole process a little bit.

I am constantly moving between a fixed list of several directories daily. Using cd can be tedious at times, so I defined a shell function to quickly jump between a defined set of directories.

Vagrant is an awesome piece of software, but constantly downloading system packages can be very time-consuming. The simplest solution is to set up an apt caching proxy as a Vagrant box.

Today, I will publish Vagrant configuration to set up DokuWiki instance. It is just a handy reference, as described in the earlier blog post.

Today I will install Vagrant which provides an easy way to configure reproducible and portable virtual environments. It is just a first step towards this new direction, so stay tuned for more details soon.