Rambo University

In this repository you will find a basic tutorial aimed to show how to use Vagrant to simplify tasks and making the repeatable as well as sandboxed.

Pre-Requisites

This presumes your host operating system is Windows 10, you must have Virtualbox installed:

VirtualBox

You then either install Vagrant for Windows:

Vagrant

Installing vagrant for windows will limit the use or provisioners such as ansible.

WSL

An alternative however is to install WSL giving a working version of ubuntu then installing vagrant in this:

apt install -y vagrant

You must then ensure you have the following environment variables set:

export VAGRANT_WSL_WINDOWS_ACCESS_USER_HOME_PATH=/mnt/c/vagrant
export VAGRANT_WSL_ENABLE_WINDOWS_ACCESS=1
export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/mnt/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox:/mnt/c/Windows/System32"

With a folder created at C:\vagrant If you get errors spinning windows machines up then you may need the winrm gem installing

gem install -r winrm

Basic Box Downloads

Throughout these tutorials the following boxes are required:

vagrant box add ubuntu/focal64

Contents

Introduction

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Task 4

Task 5