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# Vagrant

**repo:** [iJackUA/awesome-vagrant](https://github.com/iJackUA/awesome-vagrant)  
**category:** [[back-end-development|Back-End Development]]
**related:** [[docker|Docker]] · [[terraform|Terraform]] · [[kubernetes|Kubernetes]]

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# Awesome Vagrant
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A curated list of awesome Vagrant resources, plugins, tutorials and other nice things.

## Official resources

* [Vagrant site](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - installation instruction, official manuals and docs.
* [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant) - source code, issues discussion and collaboration.

## Boxes

*Where to find OS boxes ?*

* [Vagrantbox.es](http://www.vagrantbox.es/) - the biggest list of all available boxes, maintained by community via [GitHub](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/development-environment/github) pull requests.
* [Vagrant Cloud](https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search) - config share, boxes distribution and discovery (also premium features of private collaboration and sharing).
* [Cloud Images Ubuntu.com](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/) - "clean" official Ubuntu cloud images.
* [Baseboxes from Opscode](https://github.com/chef/bento#current-baseboxes) - CentOS, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu.
* [Puppet Labs Vagrant Boxes](http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/) - these boxes are provided to be used by various Puppet projects.
* [Cloudsmith](https://cloudsmith.io) - A fully managed package management SaaS with support for Vagrant repositories (and many others).

## Provisioning

* [All available build in provisioning providers](https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning) - official doc.
* [Vaprobash](http://fideloper.github.io/Vaprobash/index.html) - Vagrant Provisioning Bash Scripts.

## Notable plugins

*You can install these modules by this command `vagrant plugin install MODULE-NAME`*

* [List of available Vagrant plugins from GitHub wiki](https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/wiki/Available-Vagrant-Plugins).
* [vagrant-vbguest](https://github.com/dotless-de/vagrant-vbguest) - autoupdate VirtualBox guest additions (according to VB version).
* [vagrant-hostsupdater](https://github.com/cogitatio/vagrant-hostsupdater) - adds an entry to your /etc/hosts file on the host system.
* [vagrant-cachier](http://fgrehm.viewdocs.io/vagrant-cachier/) - share a common package (apt-get, npm, etc.) cache among similar VM instances.
* [vagrant-host-shell](https://github.com/phinze/vagrant-host-shell) - a vagrant provisioner to run commands on the host when a VM boots.
* [vagrant-ansible-local](https://github.com/jaugustin/vagrant-ansible-local)  allow provisioning your VM with [ansible](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/ansible) playbooks directly from the guest VM.
* [sahara](https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara) - easy manage VM state (commit/rollback while experimenting with software stack).
* [vagrant-registration](https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-vagrant-registration) - add "register" and "unregister" capabilities to Vagrant guests for updates on systems with a subscription model(like Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
* [vagrant-service-manager](https://github.com/projectatomic/vagrant-service-manager) - enable easier access to the features and services provided by the [Atomic Developer Bundle (ADB)](https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-atomic-developer-bundle).
* [vagrant-scp](https://github.com/invernizzi/vagrant-scp) - Copy files to a Vagrant VM via SCP.

## Helpers / Tools

* [Packer](https://www.packer.io/) - a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. For fast infrastructure deployment with multi-provider portability.
* [T.A.D.S. boilerplate](https://github.com/Thomvaill/tads-boilerplate) - boilerplate to create, develop and deploy a [Docker](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/back-end-development/docker) Swarm environment, using Vagrant to reproduce production environment locally.
* [Veewee](https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee) - a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images.
* [Vagrant plugin for ZSH shell](https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Plugins#vagrant) - auto-complete for commands, task names, box names and built-in documentation.
* [CLI Vagrant Manager](https://github.com/MunGell/vgm) - simple command-line tool to manage multiple vagrant boxes

## Desktop tools

* [Vagrant Manager](http://vagrantmanager.com/) for OS X.

## Web services

*To generate Vagrantfile with automated provisioning scripts.*

* [Phansible](http://phansible.com/) - provides an easy to use interface that helps you generate Ansible Playbooks for PHP based projects.
* [PuPHPet](https://puphpet.com/) - a simple GUI to set up virtual machines for <s>PHP</s> Web development.
* [Protobox](http://getprotobox.com/) - PuPHPet analog, but uses own installer with YAML configuration format to control everything that is installed on the virtual machine.
* [Rove](http://rove.io/) - a service that allows you to pregenerate typical Vagrant builds.

## Proxy services

*To proxy your local web server and make it publicly available over the internet.*

* [Vagrant share](https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/share/) - allows you to share your Vagrant environment with anyone in the world.
* [nip.io](http://nip.io) - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS
for any IP address.
* [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/) - tool to create secure tunnels to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
* [serveo](https://serveo.net/) - expose local servers to the internet, without installing any client!
* [proxylocal.com](http://proxylocal.com) - proxy your local web-server and make it publicly available over the internet.
* [localtunnel.me](https://localtunnel.github.io/www/) - assign you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to your locally running webserver.
* [portmap.io](https://portmap.io/) - OpenVPN based free port forwarding solution.

## Tutorials

* [Getting Started With Vagrant](http://www.thisprogrammingthing.com/2013/getting-started-with-vagrant/) by This Programming Thing.
* [Getting started with Vagrant - automated dev servers deploy and provisioning.](http://stdout.in/en/post/getting_started_with_vagrant_automated_dev_servers_deploy_and_provisioning)
* [Working with Advanced Vagrant features in PhpStorm.](http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Working+with+Advanced+Vagrant+features+in+PhpStorm)
* [Sharing Your Virtual Machine on the Web with Vagrant Share](https://scotch.io/tutorials/sharing-your-virtual-machine-on-the-web-with-vagrant-share).
* [Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Vagrant](https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-vagrant)
* [Vagrant Online Courses at Classpert](https://classpert.com/vagrant) List of Vagrant Online Courses (free and paid)

## Books

* [Vagrant: Up and Running](https://www.amazon.com/Vagrant-Running-Virtualized-Development-Environments/dp/1449335837) by Mitchell Hashimoto.
* [Vagrant CookBook](https://leanpub.com/vagrantcookbook) by Erika Heidi.
* [Pro Vagrant](https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Vagrant-Wlodzimierz-Gajda/dp/1484200748/) by by Wlodzimierz Gajda.
* [Creating Development Environments with Vagrant](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781849519182.do) / [2nd Edition](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781784397029.do) by Michael Peacock
* [Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781784393748.do) by Chad Thompson

## Popular readymade environments

* [Vagrantpress](https://github.com/vagrantpress/vagrantpress) - development environment for creating and modifying WordPress sites.
* [Varying Vagrant Vagrants](https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV) - An open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development.
* [Joomla-Vagrant](https://github.com/joomlatools/joomlatools-vagrant).
* [VDD](https://www.drupal.org/project/vdd) - Vagrant [Drupal](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/content-management-systems/drupal) Development.
* [Drupal VM](https://www.drupalvm.com/) - A VM for local Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible
* [Try Yii2](https://github.com/iJackUA/try-yii2) - try Yii2 with Vagrant VM + Ansible provisioning = Complete readymade virtual server playground.
* [Laravel4-Vagrant](https://github.com/bryannielsen/Laravel4-Vagrant) - run [Laravel](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/back-end-development/laravel) 4 inside a Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant Virtual Machine w/PHP 5.5.
* [OpenStack on Ansible with Vagrant](https://github.com/openstack-ansible/openstack-ansible).
* [Laravel Homestead](https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead) - Official Vagrant Box for Laravel development, based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, PHP 7, [Nginx](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/back-end-development/nginx), and multiple [database](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/databases/database) platforms.
* [Scotch Box](https://scotch.io/bar-talk/announcing-scotch-box-2-0-our-dead-simple-vagrant-lamp-stack-improved) - Simple Vagrant Box with [LAMP](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29) stack, plus some useful extras, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

## License

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To the extent possible under law, [Ievgen Kuzminov](http://stdout.in/) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
