Vagrant

repo: iJackUA/awesome-vagrant
category: Back-End Development related: Docker · Terraform · Kubernetes

Awesome Vagrant

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

Where to find OS boxes ?

Vagrantbox.es - the biggest list of all available boxes, maintained by community via GitHub pull requests.
Vagrant Cloud - config share, boxes distribution and discovery (also premium features of private collaboration and sharing).
Cloud Images Ubuntu.com - "clean" official Ubuntu cloud images.
Baseboxes from Opscode - CentOS, Fedora, Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu.
Puppet Labs Vagrant Boxes - these boxes are provided to be used by various Puppet projects.
Cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS with support for Vagrant repositories (and many others).

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

List of available Vagrant plugins from GitHub wiki.
vagrant-vbguest - autoupdate VirtualBox guest additions (according to VB version).
vagrant-hostsupdater - adds an entry to your /etc/hosts file on the host system.
vagrant-cachier - share a common package (apt-get, npm, etc.) cache among similar VM instances.
vagrant-host-shell - a vagrant provisioner to run commands on the host when a VM boots.
vagrant-ansible-local allow provisioning your VM with ansible playbooks directly from the guest VM.
sahara - easy manage VM state (commit/rollback while experimenting with software stack).
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 - enable easier access to the features and services provided by the Atomic Developer Bundle (ADB).
vagrant-scp - Copy files to a Vagrant VM via SCP.

Packer - 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 - boilerplate to create, develop and deploy a Docker Swarm environment, using Vagrant to reproduce production environment locally.
Veewee - a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images.
Vagrant plugin for ZSH shell - auto-complete for commands, task names, box names and built-in documentation.
CLI Vagrant Manager - simple command-line tool to manage multiple vagrant boxes

To generate Vagrantfile with automated provisioning scripts.

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

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

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

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