Awesome Vagrant

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

Official resources

• Vagrant site - installation instruction, official manuals and docs.
• GitHub repo - source code, issues discussion and collaboration.

Boxes

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).

Provisioning

• All available build in provisioning providers - official doc.
• Vaprobash - 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.
• 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.

Helpers / Tools

• 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

Desktop tools

• Vagrant Manager for OS X.

Web services

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 PHP 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.

Proxy services

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.

Tutorials

• Getting Started With Vagrant by This Programming Thing.
• Getting started with Vagrant - automated dev servers deploy and provisioning.
• Working with Advanced Vagrant features in PhpStorm.
• Sharing Your Virtual Machine on the Web with Vagrant Share.
• Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Vagrant
• Vagrant Online Courses at Classpert List of Vagrant Online Courses (free and paid)

Books

• Vagrant: Up and Running by Mitchell Hashimoto.
• Vagrant CookBook by Erika Heidi.
• Pro Vagrant by by Wlodzimierz Gajda.
• Creating Development Environments with Vagrant / 2nd Edition by Michael Peacock
• Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook by Chad Thompson

Popular readymade environments

• Vagrantpress - development environment for creating and modifying WordPress sites.
• Varying Vagrant Vagrants - An open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development.
• Joomla-Vagrant.
• VDD - Vagrant Drupal Development.
• Drupal VM - A VM for local Drupal development, built with Vagrant + Ansible
• Try Yii2 - try Yii2 with Vagrant VM + Ansible provisioning = Complete readymade virtual server playground.
• Laravel4-Vagrant - run Laravel 4 inside a Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant Virtual Machine w/PHP 5.5.
• OpenStack on Ansible with Vagrant.
• Laravel Homestead - Official Vagrant Box for Laravel development, based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, PHP 7, Nginx, and multiple database platforms.
• Scotch Box - Simple Vagrant Box with LAMP stack, plus some useful extras, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

License

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