How does anyone use vagrant with AWS?

ketzacoatl1 · May 3, 2022, 2:25pm

I’ve used vagrant for years, and been on teams using it for even longer. Pretty much always for use on AWS, and for development of some web app or cloud thing. AFAICT, this is a pretty common way to use vagrant, but there isn’t an actively supported plugin for AWS. Am I mistaken? Is the deprecated/archived aws plugin/github repo the thing to install? Are vagrant and AWS not a combination hashicorp recommend?

ishanku · May 24, 2022, 2:26pm

Hi… I wasn’t aware of the plugin, but I do code deployment from my Vagrant DEV instances in a flow order

Code … Uses Vagrant to provision and run the dev environment
Commits to the GitHub - Manual
CI-CD workflow from GIT to reply to AWS EC2

Another way is to use CodeCommit in AWS. But as you say, using vagrant file and provider AWS

vagrant-aws

Install Plugin

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws

Vagrant up, with was provider

$ vagrant up --provider=aws

Sample Vagrant File

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/ishanku/34825010dd4acbd033e4f1423371693e

Vagrant File Template.txt

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "my_vagrant_box_using_aws"

  config.vm.provider :aws do |a, override|
  
  # AWS Uses Access Key and Secret Key for any console based access
  # REFER ::  https://github.com/ishanku/images/blob/main/AWS%20IAM%20AccessKey.png
  
    a.access_key_id = "AWS ACCESS KEY"                      
    a.secret_access_key = "AWS SECRET KEY"

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