"Clone" vagrant box to development server

Question

I use vagrant in my development machine (LARAVEL HOMESTEAD). I wonder how to set up my production server (ex digital ocean) exactly like the vagrant box.

Maybe convert de vagrant file in a shell script...

Answer 1

Use vagrant package when the machine is powered off.

The package.box contains the full virtual machine, compressed. You can put this file whereever you want now.

With vagrant init you can initialize a new default Vagrantfile. In this Vagrantfile you should edit the following line with the your path:

config.vm.box_url = "http://example.com/path/to/your_box.box"

Note that this can also be a local path like:

config.vm.box_url = "file:///d:/path/to/your_box.box"