Clone multiple VM's and create multiple VM's using vagrant

Vagrant is an excellent tool for automation and doing proof of concepts (POC's). In many of the POC's you might need cluster and vagrant can do the clustering in matter of minutes by cloning an existing VM and then making into multiple Virtual machines

Assumption

You have basic idea of Linux & vagrant
we are going to use centos/7 for vagrant guest
The host is Fedora25/Redhat/CentOs system. Can be easily done for ubuntu as well

Let's see the overall Summary of what we are doing to do

create a working directory
download and install virtualbox, then vagrant
clean-up any unwanted boxes you have.
putting the config file and provisioning
Validating the nodes

Creating a working Directory

sudo su -

mkdir /opt/vagrantOps

cd /opt/vagrantOps

Download and Install vbox, vagrant to your host (Fedora 25)

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo # with contents as per Virtualbox recommendation

dnf install VirtualBox-5.1 # This will install vbox from above repo

dnf install vagrant # Vagrant core

dnf install -y vagrant vagrant-libvirt libvirt-devel # Addons to vagrant

clean-up and purge (if you want to start from scratch)

vagrant box list # to check list of boxes available

vagrant global-status # Will show all running and available VM's

vagrant destroy -f ${id} # Note the id from above command and destroy them

putting the config file and provision

vagrant init # Ensure you are in vagrantOps directory and will create Vagrantfile

# Copy code from github repo and paste it to Vagrantfile

# The config file will provision 4 VM nodes with sample node names

Validating the nodes

vagrant global-status # Will show all running and available VM's

vagrant ssh diaryfolio_vm1 # name of the VM1

vagrant ssh diaryfolio_vm2 # name of the VM2

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