Vagrant

• Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow.
• more info click here

Download

• Head up to this link and download vagrant for your operating system
• After installing you can access it via terminal
• check if it’s downloaded properly vagrant -v

## Setup

• You can install whatever you want
• Go to this link and choose your box

• Also you can select the provider, so vagrant will run it in that provider
• Here I’m going to select Virtual box, because I have installed that in my system

• Let’s download this Box

  vagrant box add ubuntu/focal64
  

• Run this command on your terminal to install this box.
• Wait few minutes for the download.
• I’m using Windows as my base machine, Commands are pretty simlar, so don’t worry :)

• Now run these two commands to setup that box
• Before running this commands create two directories

  mkidr box data
  

• Now go to box directory

vagrant init ubuntu/focal64

• And run this command

• This command generates a Vagrantfile
• Which you can use to configure the vm size,networks,synced folders and more…
• data folder has shared files between your Vm and your base machine
• You can put your custom binaries, setup.sh, required files to setup the vulnerable site and more in data folder

  config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data"
  

• Uncomment the above line in Vagrantfile to share those files to your VM
• Also I’m setting a public network to access my VM in local

   config.vm.network "public_network"
  

• Uncomment this line to do that :)
• Now time to start this VM

• You can run vagrant up to start your VM
• Now you can simply ssh into this machine using vagrant ssh command

• Great that’s all, Now you can use this :D

• Here you can see, vargrant uses Virtualbox to host this.

• You can also login into this VM with default credentials
• user: vagrant:vagrant
• root: root:vagrant

• You can shutdown your VM using vagrant halt
• If you want to force shutdown, then use vagrant destroy command

• Let’s setup our vm with a build script in next article :)