Vagrant on windows 7

However, you can create and provision Windows VMs with Vagrant with little to no problem. In fact, Windows support has been around for years.

Surprisingly, vagrant rdp — remote desktop protocol client — is the only more or less cross platform Linux , Mac way of getting into Windows guest OS. Provisioning should be done in PowerShell, hurrah! We still have a cluster of three Linux hosts with Consul agents on them.

What about adding the fourth one on Windows? That should be easy. These steps are absolutely identical to ones we did for Linux hosts last time. Execute vagrant reload to reconfigure the VM and then we can go to the VM itself to confirm that Vagrantfile changes indeed worked:. Declaring Windows provisioning steps in Vagrant is also almost identical to declaring them for Linux hosts. The only difference is that instead of.

Provisioning Consul agent in PowerShell syntactically does look different from provision. But only three lines are really, truly necessary:. What a surprise. The line above will start Consul agent as a foreground process, so provisioning step will never end.

Yet over time, new versions exist. Instead of clicking the Microsoft link in this answer, which is now obsolete, I recommend searching for the most recent version of "Windows Management Framework". In my case: Vagrant version 2. I updated to WMF in version 5. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. It leverages a declarative configuration file which describes all your software requirements, packages, operating system configuration, users, and more. The cost of fixing a bug exponentially increases the closer it gets to production.

Vagrant aims to mirror production environments by providing the same operating system, packages, users, and configurations, all while giving users the flexibility to use their favorite editor, IDE, and browser. Vagrant also integrates with your existing configuration management tooling like Ansible, Chef, Docker, Puppet or Salt, so you can use the same scripts to configure Vagrant as production.