Vagrant source code is released under the MIT license the the tool is packaged in the official repositories of all the most used Linux distributions, and can easily be installed using their respective package managers.

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How to map directories and ports between host and guests.

How to initialize an environment and write a Vagrantfile.

In this tutorial we learn how to install Vagrant on some of the most used Linux distributions, and the basic concepts behind its usage. What Vagrant does is basically acting as an abstraction layer/wrapper around virtual machines providers such as Virtualbox, VMware and libvirt, allowing us to build, provision and easily replicate virtual machines environments on different operating systems, using a common syntax.

Vagrant is a free and open source tool developed by Hashicorp, defined as a “a tool for building and distributing development environments”.

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