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I'm reading the Vagrant docs on boxes and not understanding the difference between:
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise32; vs.vagrant init hashicorp/precise32The latter fetches the hashicorp/precise32 box from a remote catalog, and then creates a Vagrantfile for spinning up an instance of that box. But I don't see how that's different than the box add method.
So I ask: What's the difference between these two commands and when is it appropriate to use each of them?
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You can add a box to Vagrant with vagrant box add . This stores the box under a specific name so that multiple Vagrant environments can re-use it.
Command: vagrant init [name [url]] This initializes the current directory to be a Vagrant environment by creating an initial Vagrantfile if one does not already exist. If a first argument is given, it will prepopulate the config.
Vagrant is able to define and control multiple guest machines per Vagrantfile. This is known as a "multi-machine" environment. These machines are generally able to work together or are somehow associated with each other.
1 - Vagrant Init In this example, I want to create a very basic Vagrantfile based on a box used from Vagrant Cloud. To do this I simply run vagrant init with the box address. `vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.
vagrant box add hashicorp/precise32
just download the box image into your vagrant application while:
vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
make a vagrant file in current directory. if vagrant box image hasn`t been downloaded before. then it try to download the vagrant box image.
in the scenario which vagrant box has been added then we want to init a vagrant file. in shell we can get an name auto complete with Tab button, because it knows the vagrant image already.
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