Vagrant

Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments.

Installation

Vagrant uses VirtualBox to manage the virtual dependencies. You can directly download VirtualBox and install it or install the VirtualBox package which is available in the Ubuntu's repositories:

sudo apt install virtualbox

You can directly download Vagrant and install it or install the Vagrant package which is available in the Ubuntu's repositories:

sudo apt install vagrant

Usage

To create and configure the virtual machine according to the Vagrantfile:

vagrant up

To ssh into the virtual machine:

vagrant ssh

To stop the virtual machine:

vagrant halt

To destroy all resources that were created during the creation of the machine:

vagrant destroy