Managing a Vagrant Environment

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Managing a Vagrant Environment

Vagrant lets us provision development environments quickly and easily through code and the command line. One benefit of this is that it allows us to turn off our guest hosts so we can better manage our system resources. In this hands-on lab, we spend some time making changes to our Vagrant environment, before shutting it down for the day.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 10, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Update the Guest
1. Start the container:
```
vagrant up
```
1. Log in to the container:
```
vagrant ssh
```
1. Update the guest:
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
```
1. Log out of the container:
```
exit
```
Challenge

Reboot the Guest
1. Reboot the guest:
  
  vagrant reload
2. Access the guest again, then install the needed packages:
```
vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm -y
```
1. Log out of the container:
```
exit
```
Challenge

Stop the Guest
1. When finished, stop the guest:
```
vagrant halt
```

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