Pro Vagrant

CHAPTER 3

The States of VM

Now that you know how to run applications within a Vagrant-controlled environment, it’s time to learn more about Vagrant internals and get acquainted with the operations behind the $ vagrant up command. In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

• Vagrantfile
• Versioning strategy for the Vagrantfile format
• Base boxes (where they come from and how, and when they get installed on your computer)
• Starting and stopping a VM
• States that a VM can enter
• Vagrant commands to manage a VM state
• Resolving the problem of colliding ports

To simplify this analysis of $ vagrant up, Vagrant’s actions will be divided into three ...