About this fork

Changes in this fork:

• Added auto download of official boxes in the init()

This fork introduces the following changes over the original:

• Rewritten test suite allowing for easier addition of new features.
• The init() method which initialized the VM based on the named base box.
• The halt() method which stops the VM without destroying it.
• Support for sandbox mode using the Sahara gem (https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara).
• Support for box-related commands - box_add(), box_list(), box_remove() methods.
• Support for provisioning - up() accepts no_provision and there is the provision() method.

Introduction

Python-vagrant is a python module that provdes a thin wrapper around the vagrant command line executable, allowing programmatic control of Vagrant virtual machines (boxes). This module is useful for:

• Starting a Vagrant box (up).
• Terminating a Vagrant box (destroy).
• Querying the status of a box (status).
• Getting ssh configuration information useful for SSHing into the box. (host, port, ...)

This package is alpha and its API is not guaranteed to be stable. The API attempts to be congruent with the vagrant API terminology, to facilitate knowledge transfer for users already familiar with Vagrant.

I wanted python bindings for Vagrant so I could programmatically access my vagrant box using Fabric. Why are you interested?

Contribute

If you use python and vagrant and this project does not do what you want, please open an issue or a pull request on github, https://github.com/todddeluca/python-vagrant.

Requirements

• A working installation of Vagrant.
• Vagrant requires VirtualBox.
• Probably python 2.7 (since that is the only version it has been tested with.)

Installation

Install from github.com (this fork)

Clone and install python-vagrant

cd ~
git clone [email protected]:kamilgrymuza/python-vagrant.git
cd python-vagrant
python setup.py install

Usage

A contrived example of starting a vagrant box (using a Vagrantfile from the current directory) and running a fabric task on it:

import vagrant
from fabric.api import env, execute, task, run

@task
def mytask():
    run('echo $USER')


v = vagrant.Vagrant()
v.up()
env.hosts = [v.user_hostname_port()]
env.key_filename = v.keyfile()
env.disable_known_hosts = True # useful for when the vagrant box ip changes.
execute(mytask) # run a fabric task on the vagrant host.