Vagrant Cheat Sheet

Vagrant creates VMs from a Vagrantfile in the current directory. Every command applies to all VMs defined there, or only to the one named as argument (vagrant ssh node1).

stateDiagram-v2
  direction LR
  [*] --> running: up
  running --> poweroff: halt
  poweroff --> running: up
  running --> saved: suspend
  saved --> running: resume / up
  running --> [*]: destroy
  poweroff --> [*]: destroy

Command	Effect
`vagrant up`	Creates and provisions the VMs, or starts existing ones.
`vagrant up --provider=libvirt`	Picks the provider (or set `VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER`).
`vagrant status`	State of the VMs in this project.
`vagrant global-status --prune`	VMs of all projects on this machine.
`vagrant ssh [name]`	Opens a shell in a VM.
`vagrant halt`	Shuts the VMs down.
`vagrant suspend` / `resume`	Saves the VM state to disk and restores it.
`vagrant reload`	Restarts and applies `Vagrantfile` changes (network, CPU, memory).
`vagrant provision`	Runs the provisioners again on running VMs.
`vagrant destroy -f`	Deletes the VMs and their disks without asking.
`vagrant snapshot save <name>`	Saves a snapshot; `snapshot restore <name>` goes back.
`vagrant ssh-config`	SSH settings, e.g. for an Ansible inventory or `ssh -F`.

Boxes

Command	Effect
`vagrant box list`	Downloaded boxes.
`vagrant box outdated`	Checks whether this project’s box has an update.
`vagrant box update`	Downloads the newest version of the box.
`vagrant box prune`	Deletes old box versions.