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 that your OS. By default, 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.
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.