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.