This is a general purpose box with the most commonly used packages I need installed. The Docker alternative is available here. Installed tools include:
- Terraform v0.12.25
- Terraform AWS Provider version 2.62.0
- Vault v1.4.1
- aws-cli version 1.18.40
- Python 3.6.9
- Salt 3000.3
- Ansible 2.9.2
- Docker version 19.03.6
Make sure VirtualBox and Vagrant are installed.
Ensure that hardware virtualization support is turned on in the BIOS settings if using a Windows machine (enable VT-x on Intel processors).
Vagrant 2.2.5 was used for the below setup:
$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 2.2.5
vagrant up will bring up the machine and provision it with the available bash script.
The amount of cores and memory dedicated can be changed inside the Vagrantfile with the HOST_CPUS and HOST_MEMORY variables.
Check that the machine is running:
$ vagrant status
Current machine states:
tools running (virtualbox)
Use vagrant ssh to log in and check the installed versions from inside the machine:
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-bionic 4.15.0-99-generic #100-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 22 20:32:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ terraform --version
Terraform v0.12.25
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ ls -lh ~/.terraform.d/plugins/
total 147M
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 147M May 15 00:10 terraform-provider-aws_v2.62.0_x4
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ vault --version
Vault v1.4.1
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.18.40 Python/3.6.9 Linux/4.15.0-99-generic botocore/1.15.40
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ salt --version
salt 3000.3
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ ansible --version
ansible 2.9.2
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/home/vagrant/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /home/vagrant/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /home/vagrant/.local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.6.9 (default, Apr 18 2020, 01:56:04) [GCC 8.4.0]
vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~$ docker --version
Docker version 19.03.6, build 369ce74a3c