Vagrant: Built Customize Vagrant Box

Built Customize Vagrant Box

We can make customize box from our vagrant existed box. With this, we can change our environment in existing box and customize it according our need.

Scripting

// In your Vagrant Init file directory
vagrant up
// Get in to your vagrant environment
vagrant ssh

/*
 * Do your custumize in here
 * For example. I will remove my existing ruby version from vagrant box and change it to new one
 */

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev \
git-core curl libyaml-dev libcurl4-dev libsqlite3-dev apache2-dev -y

curl --remote-name http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz

tar zxf ruby-1.9.3-p194.tar.gz

cd ruby-1.9.3-p194/

./configure

make

sudo make install

// Check if my new ruby version successfully installed
ruby -v

// If succeed quit from vagrant ssh
exit

// Adding your customize box to new box
vagrant package

// Name it
vagrant box add lucid64_with_ruby193 package.box

// Check for your new box
vagrant box list

- lucid32
- lucid64
- lucid64_with_ruby193

// Activate your vagrant 
vagrant init lucid64_with_ruby193