CA675 Vagrant File

This will provide a convenient baseline for the practicals for CA675.

Vagrant file above ^^^ is a working version up to end of lab 2.

Step by Step

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Install Vagrant
3. CD into the directory where you want to put your VagrantFile
   • Note for DCU lab machine users - When creating a VM, you should create a folder in d:\virtual (or d:\temp) and store the VM there (or on a personal USB hard drive)
4. vagrant init ubuntu/trusty64 will create a vagrant box (and your vagrant file) and set up your virtual machine
   • Note you can only have one VagrantFile in any given directory
5. vagrant up will start the process of downloading and configuring the VM
6. Use vagrant ssh to ssh into the running machine
   • Alternatively, you can use putty to ssh into localhost port 2222 (username/password is vagrant)
7. You can then open the VagrantFile in a text editor and edit as necessary
   • You might wish to change the number of VCPUs, Memory Allocation
   • You might wish to add or remove shared directories
   • For more details on Vagrantfile commands see https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/vagrantfile/
   • During the course of the labs for this module we will work further on this vagrant file, building upon the blank intial VagrantFile to create one which provisions the VM with multiple cloud technologies.
8. vagrant halt shuts down the VM
9. vagrant destroy deletes the VM

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