Vagrant up6/10/2023 ![]() This analogy isn't perfect as after all, we can keep pulling more and more machines out of a Vagrant box. You can read more about Vagrant Boxes on the Vagrant Docs. Your new server would arrive in a big cardboard box which you would unpack and et voilà, your new machine is ready for your chosen OS. Just like in the olden days when you would have to buy a brand new shiny bit of tin to install and run your server on. I like to think of it as a 'machine' is brought out of a 'box'. Vagrant has the concept of a 'Box' and a 'machine'. Those are the main day-to-day tasks I use when dealing with running Vagrant boxes, but more commands can be found on the official Vagrant Docs. However, I personally find myself simply checking the list inside VirtualBox, more out of habit than running / remembering yet another command. Vagrant status can be used if you are unsure what the current status of your available virtual machine is. Once a vagrant machine has been suspended, to resume you would run: This comes in handy more often than you might think. The advantage of this is that you can pause your server whilst it is doing something. Think of this like shutting the lid on your laptop - as soon as you open the lid again, your machine is up and running without needing to boot. This takes extra disk space on your local / development machine. ![]() Vagrant suspend also stops the running machine exactly where it is and also saves the entire contents of the RAM of the virtual machine also. Once the machine is powered down, the underlying virtualbox files remain on your hard disk until next required. This is like holding down the power button on your physical machine. Which, as the command would imply, forces the shutdown regardless. If the machine can't gracefully / cleanly shut down, you can instead do a : Vagrant halt shuts down the Vagrant machine - as though you shut down the machine cleanly, for example running a sudo shutdown now from the terminal in Ubuntu. There are two ways to 'stop' a running Vagrant machine. Simple :) Shutting Down A Running Vagrant Machine You've done your vagrant up and then jumped on to your shiny new box with vagrant ssh.īut how do you exit your vagrant box, back to your dev machine? The following are the important commands I think all Vagrant users need to know about. Thin provisioning may work the same for other Providers, but I have no experience with them so can't say for sure. The numbers sound inconsequential given todays hard disk capacities, but if left unchecked, it can add up. However, if you spin up multiple instances of the same box, each one will consume that ~2.5gb minimum, and the box file itself will be ~500mb on average. We will only consume more space - up to 20gb - as we write files to our VM. This is a fancy term for saying that should we ask for a brand new Ubuntu server with a 20gb drive, the underlying file that really contains our server may only use ~2.5gb of space on disk. The virtual machines that Vagrant creates for us, assuming you are using VirtualBox or VMWare, should be thin-provisioned. This is pretty important if you are using a busy laptop with a relatively small hard disk (MBP users, I feel your pain.) In this video we will cover a few commands to manage your Vagrant environment, and recover disk space you may have entirely forgotten about. To force Xdebug to start automatically, modify the /etc/php/7.x/fpm/conf.d/20-xdebug.Before we move on, it's important to keep your Vagrant setup in check. When debugging functional tests that make requests to the web server, it is easier to autostart debugging rather than modifying tests to pass through a custom header or cookie to trigger debugging. To disable Xdebug, run sudo phpdismod xdebug within your Homestead virtual machine and restart the FPM service. Xdebug causes PHP to run significantly slower. Homestead runs on any Windows, macOS, or Linux system and includes Nginx, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Node, and all of the other software you need to develop amazing Laravel applications. If something goes wrong, you can destroy and re-create the box in minutes! ![]() Vagrant provides a simple, elegant way to manage and provision Virtual Machines. Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. Laravel strives to make the entire PHP development experience delightful, including your local development environment.
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