How To Install Vagrant on Debian 10 Buster

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vagrant on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, Vagrant is an open-source command-line tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. Frequently, a test environment is needed for analyzing the latest release and new tools. Also, it reduces the time spent on re-building your OS. By default, the vagrant uses VirtualBox for managing the Virtualization. Vagrant acts as the fundamental configuration for managing/deploying multiple reproducible virtual environments with the same configuration.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Vagrant on a Debian 10 (Buster) server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Debian 10 (Buster).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Vagrant on Debian 10 Buster

Step 1. Before we install any software, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 2. Installing Vagrant on Debian 10.

Now, we download the Vagrant package with the following command:

curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.6/vagrant_2.2.6_x86_64.deb

Once the .deb file is downloaded, install using the following command:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ./vagrant_2.2.6_x86_64.deb

To verify that the installation was successful, run the following command which will print the Vagrant version:

vagrant --version

Step 4. Deploy your development environment.

Vagrant can quickly deploy the development environment. The following command to download Ubuntu 18.04 Vagrant image, use:

vagrant box add generic/ubuntu1804

To launch a VM using Vagrant, you’ll need to create a Vagrantfile:

mkdir ubuntu-18.04
cd ubuntu-18.04
touch Vagrantfile

Bring up the VM by running:

vagrant up

Then ssh to the instance with:

vagrant ssh

To shutdown VM, use:

vagrant halt

Hibernate VM:

vagrant suspend

Set VM to initial state by cleaning all data:

vagrant destroy

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Vagrant. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Vagrant in Debian 10 Buster systems. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Vagrant website.