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We have now completed our Vagrant setup and we are ready to start using it.There are 3 main commands you will need when using vagrant You will need to plug the name of this customization specification into your vagrant file before proceeding to the next step. Generally I set the option to use the machine name as the host name and that is it. You need to have a vmware customization specification you can call.

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Install VMWare tools: sudo apt-get install open-vm-toolsĬonvert to template VMWare customization specification

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Install Updates on machine, run the following commands: sudo -i Apt-get update apt-get upgrade

change the line starting with %sudo to read: %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL NOPASSWD:ALLĬhange the line starting with %sudo to read: %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL NOPASSWD:ALL.

Grant vagrant ownership permissions over folderĪdd vagrant user to sudoer group usermod -aG sudo vagrantĪdd your public ssh key to the authorized_keys file for the vagrant user echo “” > /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keysĪllow users to run sudo commands without a password: ssh folder with the following command mkdir /home/vagrant/.ssh Below is my checklist for creating an Ubuntu vagrant template:Ĭreate vagrant user using: useradd vagrant commandĬreate vagrant home and. There are not a lot of steps to create a template to use with Vagrant in vSphere. Otherwise future linked clones won’t see the updates you have made.Īt this stage, Vagrant is installed and configured. If you update the template, you will need to remember to create a new snapshot. Then all the linked clones will be based off that snapshot. The only caveat is you have to take a snapshot of the virtual machine template while it is still a VM. However, using a linked clone will make provisioning machines much faster. Once thing to note, the option vspehre.linked_clone is an optional attribute. Notice there are a few items you will need to fill in. #Template you are cloning from must have a snapshot for this to work Open the file with your text editor, and paste the following: nfigure("2") do |config| Now we can start configuring Vagrant.start by creating a new file in your Vagrant folder called vagrant file with no file extension. We now have all the bits downloaded and installed. This will output a file called dummy.box into your vagrant folder. After you have downloaded the json file, open a terminal window, navigate to where you saved the file, and run the following command: tar cvzf dummy.box.

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To create the dummy box, you first need to download the metadata.json file found here. It then pipes all the commands through to vsphere using rbvmomi, the ruby VMWare programming library. This box is really just a placeholder to make Vagrant happy. When using the vSphere provider, we create a “Dummy Box”.

When you are using vSphere, things work a bit differently. You then reference that box file when you are provisoining machines, and Vagant builds a machine from that box file based on your specifications.

Or, you would use packer to create a new box file. If you were using Vagrant on your local computer, you would go to Vagrants website and download a. Now that the prerequisites are installed, we can install the vagrant-vsphere provider with the following command:vagrant plugin install vagrant-vsphere Creating Dummy Box File

If you already have ruby installed, you can install Nokoko Giri with the following command: gem install nokogiri Nokogiri is an XML/HTML reader and parser. The vagrant-vsphere Vagrant plugin has a prerequisite of nokogiri. You can download Vagrant here.Īfter Vagrant is downloaded, simply double click on the installer icon, and follow the wizard to complete the setup.Īlternatively, if you have chocolatey installed on your computer, you can install Vagrant with the command:Choco install vagrant.įor more information on chocolatey, see our article on installing chocolatey. Download and install Vagrantįirst thing is to download and install Vagrant. I recommend creating a vagrant folder on your computer and saving all files there. As you are running through this article, you will need to download various files.