Cli Access Cli Vagrant

Developers and end users can use Vagrant to deploy virtual machines on Platform9 Managed OpenStack. This tutorial describes the steps to do so.

We use following GitHub Vagrant OpenStack plugin for this tutorial:

https://github.com/ggiamarchi/vagrant-openstack-provider

Step 1 - Download and Install Vagrant Plugin for OpenStack

Download and install the vagrant plugin for OpenStack on your machine.

Shell

vagrant plugin install vagrant-openstack-provider

Step 2 - Create a Dummy Vagrant Box for OpenStack

Vagrant has a concept of 'boxes' which are package format for Vagrant environments. For the purpose of connecting to a remote OpenStack endpoint, we need to create a dummy Vagrant box.

Shell

vagrant box add dummy https://github.com/cloudbau/vagrant-openstack-plugin/raw/master/dummy.box

Step 3 - Configure Your Vagrantfile

Create a new directory and copy the Vagrantfile that is provided with this tutorial into the directory.

Customize the Vagrantfile to fill in parameters specific to your Platform9 Managed OpenStack account, and other details. The sample Vagrantfile provided here offers plenty of comments to help.

Step 4 - Deploy the VM

Shell

vagrant up --provider=openstack

This will start a VM in your Platform9 environment and SSH into it directly.

Congratulations! Your Vagrant box was just deployed! Vagrant and Platform9 did the necessary work of deploying the VM onto your underlying infrastructure.

You can also use:

• vagrant destroy to kill the VM

• vagrant ssh to SSH into an already created VM.

Note

Vagrant does not like if you delete a VM behind Vagrant’s back. To reset Vagrant’s state in such situations, execute vagrant openstack reset.