Debian 9 with Vagrant

A Vagrant machine to try Ansible

Require

Vagrant sudo pacman -S vagrant
Virtual Box

Create an SSH key

Create the key : ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/vagrant_key -C "vagrant@ip_vm"
Add the key to the ssh-agent: ssh-add ~/.ssh/vagrant_key
Check if the key is available for the ssh-agent : ssh-add -L
Start the VM : vagrant up
With the current configuration, the VM should be accessible with : ssh vagrant@192.168.50.50

Tips

Edit /etc/hosts : sudo gedit /etc/hosts
Add 192.168.50.50 vagrant to the file
Now, you can connect with ssh vagrant@vagrant

Usefull command

See this article

vagrant init debian/stretch64 : initialize a new config for Vagrant with a Debian 9

vagrant up : Start the VM.

vagrant status : Give the status of the VM

vagrant halt : Stop the VM

vagrant reload : Restart the VM

vagrant suspend : Suspend the VM

vagrant resume : Resume the VM

vagrant destroy : Delete the VM

vagrant ssh-config : Generate configuration for SSH client

vagrant ssh : connect with SSH to the VM

vagrant provision : forces reprovisioning of the vagrant machine

Settings

Define an @IP for the Vagrant machine
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"

Tell Vagrant to no regenerate an insecure key, it's useless since we will use our own public key instead
config.ssh.insert_key = false

Copy the public key into the Vagrant machine and rename it into "authorized_keys"
config.vm.provision "file", source: "~~/.ssh/vagrant_key.pub", destination: "~~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

Install Python for Ansible :

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
       apt-get update
       echo "Install Python for Ansible"
       apt-get install -y python
     SHELL

Config for RAM & CPU :

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.memory = "1024"
     vb.cpus = 1
  end