Awesome Vagrant
A curated list of awesome Vagrant resources, plugins, tutorials and other
nice things.
Official resources
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Vagrant site - installation
instruction, official manuals and docs.
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GitHub repo - source
code, issues discussion and collaboration.
Boxes
Where to find OS boxes ?
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Vagrantbox.es - the biggest list
of all available boxes, maintained by community via GitHub pull
requests.
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Vagrant Cloud -
config share, boxes distribution and discovery (also premium features of
private collaboration and sharing).
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Cloud Images Ubuntu.com
- “clean” official Ubuntu cloud images.
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Baseboxes from Opscode
- CentOS, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu.
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Puppet Labs Vagrant Boxes
- these boxes are provided to be used by various Puppet projects.
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Cloudsmith - A fully managed package
management SaaS with support for Vagrant repositories (and many others).
Provisioning
Notable plugins
You can install these modules by this command
vagrant plugin install MODULE-NAME
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Packer - a tool for creating
identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source
configuration. For fast infrastructure deployment with multi-provider
portability.
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T.A.D.S. boilerplate
- boilerplate to create, develop and deploy a Docker Swarm environment,
using Vagrant to reproduce production environment locally.
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Veewee - a tool for
easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and
virtual machine images.
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Vagrant plugin for ZSH shell
- auto-complete for commands, task names, box names and built-in
documentation.
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CLI Vagrant Manager -
simple command-line tool to manage multiple vagrant boxes
Web services
To generate Vagrantfile with automated provisioning scripts.
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Phansible - provides an easy to use
interface that helps you generate Ansible Playbooks for PHP based
projects.
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PuPHPet - a simple GUI to set up
virtual machines for
PHP Web development.
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Protobox - PuPHPet analog, but
uses own installer with YAML configuration format to control everything
that is installed on the virtual machine.
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Rove - 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.
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Vagrant share -
allows you to share your Vagrant environment with anyone in the world.
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nip.io - a magic domain name that provides
wildcard DNS for any IP address.
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ngrok - tool to create secure tunnels
to expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.
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serveo - expose local servers to the
internet, without installing any client!
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proxylocal.com - proxy your local
web-server and make it publicly available over the internet.
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localtunnel.me - assign
you a unique publicly accessible url that will proxy all requests to
your locally running webserver.
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portmap.io - OpenVPN based free port
forwarding solution.
Tutorials
Books
Popular readymade environments
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Vagrantpress
- development environment for creating and modifying WordPress sites.
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Varying Vagrant Vagrants
- An open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development.
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Joomla-Vagrant.
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VDD - Vagrant Drupal
Development.
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Drupal VM - A VM for local
Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible
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Try Yii2 - try Yii2
with Vagrant VM + Ansible provisioning = Complete readymade virtual
server playground.
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Laravel4-Vagrant
- run Laravel 4 inside a Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant Virtual Machine w/PHP 5.5.
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OpenStack on Ansible with Vagrant.
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Laravel Homestead
- Official Vagrant Box for Laravel development, based on Ubuntu 16.04
LTS, PHP 7, Nginx, and multiple database platforms.
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Scotch Box
- Simple Vagrant Box with
LAMP
stack, plus some useful extras, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
License
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Ievgen Kuzminov has waived all copyright
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