Tobanet

A quick overview of the most useful vagrant commands.

Hint: “ve” means vagrant environment – the virtual machine(s) you run.

Command	Remark
vagrant up	start ve
vagrant halt	stop ve
vagrant reload	reload Vagrantfile, restart ve
vagrant destroy	destroy ve
vagrant status	show status of ve(s)
vagrant box list	show local baseboxes
vagrant box add http://local.example.com/vagrant/box.json --box-version 2019.05.04	explicitly install a box from the given location and version
vagrant box update	update all baseboxes currently installed
vagrant box update --box prefix/boxname	update just the given basebox
vagrant box prune	remove outdated baseboxes
vagrant box prune --name prefix/boxname	remove just the given outdated baseboxes
vagrant box remove prefix/boxname	remove all cached instances of the given basebox
vagrant box remove prefix/boxname --box-version 2019.05.04	remove just the given basebox and version
vagrant up --provision ve	provision the ve with all provisioners (again)
vagrant up --provision-with ansible ve	provision the ve with ansible (again)
vagrant reload --provision ve	reload Vagrantfile, restart the ve and provision it again
vagrant provision ve	provision the running ve without restart
vagrant provision --provision-with-ansible ve	provision the running ve with ansible and without restart

How to return to a previous version of a vagrant basebox

1. remove any vagrant environment based on the basebox you want to remove:
   vagrant destroy
2. remove the basebox:
   vagrant box remove prefix/basebox --box-version xyz
3. if you already pruned the previous basebox you have to download it again:
   vagrant box add http://local.example.com/vagrant/basebox.json --box-version xyz
4. check if it is there:
   vagrant box list
5. create a new vagrant environment:
   vagrant up