Infrastructure as Code Cookbook

Customizing a Vagrant VM

Vagrant supports many configuration options through the Vagrantfile. Here are the most useful ones for daily use.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need the following:

• A working Vagrant installation (with a hypervisor)
• An Internet connection
• The Vagrantfile from the previous recipe using a bento/centos72 box

How to do it…

Here are some possible customizations for your Vagrant Virtual Machine.

Set the hostname

If you want to specify the VM name right from Vagrant, just add the following:

config.vm.hostname = "vagrant-lab-1"

This will also add an entry with the hostname to the /etc/host file.

Disable new box version check at startup

You may be using a slow internet connection, or you know you do want to use your current ...