Hands-On DevOps with Vagrant

Creating a Vagrantfile

Before we create our own Vagrantfile, let's first create and move into a new directory. In this example, we will create a new directory called vagrantfiletest to keep things simple! Run the following commands in the given order:

1. mkdir vagrantfiletest
2. cd vagrantfiletest
3. vagrant init

By using the vagrant init command, we have now initialized a new Vagrantfile in our current vagrantfiletest directory, as shown in the following screenshot:

The default Vagrantfile has a basic structure to get you started. If you wish to create a very minimal shell then you can run either the vagrant init --minimal or the vagrant init -m ...