Note that, currently, the images don’t end with the standard “.box” suffix. If you’re on Windows or Mac OS X, you need the VirtualBox image. If you’re on Fedora 21, you’ll most likely want the libvirt image. You want to select one of the links for Vagrant Images. The alpha images are available via the Cloud pre-release download page. If not, though, read on – you may find Vagrant to be pretty useful.

Vagrant works with a number of “providers” – such as KVM/libvirt, VirtualBox – and “ boxes” that are basically virtual machine base images with a light touch of special sauce.Ī lot of folks are already using Vagrant to manage their development environment – if you’re one of those folks, this article may be old news for you.

Vagrant is a tool that makes it easy to manage a development environment, and even share that configuration with others. What we want is a way to spin up an environment quickly, replicate it easily, and dispose of it when we’re done. Virtual machines and containers are fantastic to use to set up development and testing environments, but creating virtual machines manually can be slow and tedious.

Ready to try out one of the Vagrant boxes? We’ll step through downloading and running the boxes for libvirt/KVM and VirtualBox. While we’re a few months away from the final release, we have an alpha out last week and test candidates for Fedora 22 beta spinning up as we speak. One of the new offerings with the Fedora 22 release is a Vagrant box for the Atomic host.

Vagrant box download