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Vagrant Interview Questions and Answers

Vagrant is an open-source tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. It allows users to create and configure VMs and provision them in a reproducible manner. The Vagrantfile contains configuration details for VMs such as the box image to use, provisioning tools, and VM settings. Common Vagrant commands include vagrant up to create and provision VMs, vagrant halt to shut them down, and vagrant destroy to remove them.

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Vagrant Interview Questions and Answers

Vagrant is an open-source tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. It allows users to create and configure VMs and provision them in a reproducible manner. The Vagrantfile contains configuration details for VMs such as the box image to use, provisioning tools, and VM settings. Common Vagrant commands include vagrant up to create and provision VMs, vagrant halt to shut them down, and vagrant destroy to remove them.

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Vagrant Interview Questions And Answers

What is Vagrant?

Vagrant is written in which language?

What is a BOX in Vagrant?

What is Provider in Vagrant?

What is Provisioner in Vagrant?

What are the subcommands related to Box command?

Explain vagrant init Command in Vagrant?

What is the role of plugins in vagrant?

Explain Box Add Command in Vagrant?

What is the Box List command in Vagrant?

What is Box Outdated command in Vagrant?

What is the Box Prune command in Vagrant?

What is the use of vagrant up command in Vagrant?

How Halt command behaves in Vagrant?

Explore the behavior of Suspend command in Vagrant

How to destroy a configured environment using Vagrant?

What is the primary function of vagrantfile?

1. What is Vagrant?
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● Vagrant is an open-source software product used for Infrastructure automation.
● It is developed for building and managing portable virtual software development
environments, e.g. for Hyper-V, VirtualBox, VMware, Docker, and AWS. It uses
Infrastructure as Code technique for building a Virtual environment.

2. Vagrant is written in which language?


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● Vagrant is easy and it is written in Ruby language.

3. What is a BOX in Vagrant?


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● A box is a packaged Vagrant environment, typically a virtual machine image.

4. What is Provider in Vagrant?


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● A provider is a location or platform in which the virtual environment runs.
● It can be local (the default is to use VirtualBox as a platform), remote, or even a
special case like a Docker container which is more light-weighted.

5. What is Provisioner in Vagrant?


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● A provisioner is a tool to set up the virtual environment using code and it is simple
as a shell script or an alternatively more advanced tool like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
can be used.

6. What are the subcommands related to Box command?


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● Box command used to manage (add, list, update, remove, etc.) boxes.
● Command: vagrant box
● The main functionality of Box command is exposed through even more
subcommands:
- Add
- List
- Remove
- Outdated
- Prune
- Repackage
- Remove

7. Explain vagrant init Command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant init [name [url]]
● This initializes the current directory to be a Vagrant environment by creating an
initial Vagrantfile if one doesn't exist already.
● If a primary argument is given, it'll prepopulate the config.vm.box setting within the
created Vagrantfile.

8. What is the role of plugins in vagrant?


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● Vagrant comes with several nice options out of the box to induce your
environments up and running.
● Sometimes, however, you want to vary the way Vagrant will one thing or add further
functionality to Vagrant. This can be done via Vagrant plugins.

9. Explain Box Add Command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant box add ADDRESS
● This command is used to adds a box with the given address to Vagrant.

10. What is the Box List command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant box list
● This command lists all the boxes that are available into the Vagrant.

11. What is Box Outdated command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant box outdated
● This command informs you whether or not the box you are using in your current
Vagrant environment is outdated.

12. What is the Box Prune command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant box prune
● This command removes old versions of available boxes. If the box is currently in use
by any VM which is created by vagrant then vagrant will ask for confirmation.

13.What is the use of vagrant up command in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant up [name|id]
● This command is used to creates and configures guest machines according to your
Vagrantfile.
● This is the most important command in Vagrant since it is how any Vagrant machine
is created. Anyone using Vagrant must use this command on a day-to-day basis for
creating the automatic virtual environment.

14. How Halt command behaves in Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant halt [name|id]
● This command is used to shuts down the running virtual machine which is created
by Vagrant.
● Vagrant will first attempt to gracefully shut down process for the virtual machine by
running the guest OS shutdown mechanism. If this procedure will fail, or if the
--force flag is specified, Vagrant will effectively just shut off power to the virtual
machine.

15. Explore the behavior of Suspend command in Vagrant


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● Command: vagrant suspend [name|id]
● This command is used to suspend the guest machine Vagrant is managing, rather
than fully shutting it down or destroying it.
● A suspend command stores the exact point-in-time state of the virtual machine so
that when you resume it later, it starts running immediately from that point, rather
than start booting from the initial phase.
● This generally wants extra disk space to store all the contents of the RAM within
your guest machine, but the machine no longer consumes the RAM of your host
machine or CPU cycles while it is suspended.

16.How to destroy a configured environment using Vagrant?


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● Command: vagrant destroy [name|id]
● This command, first of all, stops the running machine Vagrant is managing and then
destroys all resources that were created during the machine creation process.
● After applying this command, your computer should be left at a clean state, as if you
never created the guest machine in the first place.

17. What is the primary function of vagrantfile?


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● The primary function of the Vagrantfile is to describe the type of server machine
which is required for a project, and how to configure and provision these machines.

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