Vagrant Box Wrapper

A wrapper plugin for vagrant that allows for calling vagrant commands from outside of the box directory. The plugin also ships with a few extra commands that help to manage more than one box, along with custom tab-completion for both zsh and bash.

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Screenshot Example

This program's purpose is best explained with a screenshot. Notice, I'm running the commands from within my home directory, which is not where my vagrant box directories are located.

Installation

oh-my-zsh

Clone the repository in your $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins directory. Note that the directory name needs to be vb, so clone it as such.

git clone https://github.com/evanthegrayt/vagrant-box-wrapper.git \
  $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/vb

Then add the plugin to your $HOME/.zshrc file in the plugins array:

plugins=(vb) # Obviously, leave your other plugins in the array.

bash-it

Clone the repository in your $BASH_IT_CUSTOM directory

git clone https://github.com/evanthegrayt/vagrant-box-wrapper.git \
  $BASH_IT_CUSTOM/vb

Files in this directory that end with .bash are automatically sourced, so there's nothing else to do.

Vanilla zsh or bash

Clone the repository wherever you like, and source either the vb.plugin.zsh file for zsh, or vb.plugin.bash file for bash, from one of your startup files, such as ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, respectively.

# Where $INSTALLATION_PATH is the path to where you installed the plugin.
source $INSTALLATION_PATH/vb.plugin.zsh  # in ~/.zshrc
source $INSTALLATION_PATH/vb.plugin.bash # in ~/.bashrc

If you're using a version of zsh/bash that doesn't support the completion features, or you just don't want to use them, just source the vb.sh file directly.

source $INSTALLATION_PATH/vb.sh # in either ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

Setup

To use this function, you need to add VB_BOXES_LOCATION=[dir] and VB_BOXES=([BOX NAMES]) as variables in either a startup file, or a file named $HOME/.vbrc.

• VB_BOX_LOCATION should be a string set to the path where the boxes are located.
• VB_BOXES should be an array, with each element being a directory that contains a vagrant box.

# These lines should go in either a startup file, such as `~/.zshrc` or
# `~/.bashrc`, or ~/.vbrc.
VB_BOXES_LOCATION="/path/to/where/boxes/are"
VB_BOXES=(vagrant_box_1 vagrant_box_2 vagrant_box_3)

You can view my .vbrc file here.

Usage

The vb command comes with a few unique arguments.

Argument	What it does
switch	Switches the box to the next in the array.
list	Displays all available boxes, and which is currently being used.
cd	Changes your current directory to the current box location.
echo	Lists the full path to the current box.
use [BOX]	Skips cycling of boxes and sets current box to BOX.
-h	Gives a brief usage.

Any other argument, vb will attempt to forward to the vagrant command. Use this feature to run common vagrant commands, such as up, ssh, halt, etc., from anywhere.

Customization

You can enable/disable colored terminal output, and even change the colors, by adding the following to your ~/.vbrc or a startup file.

VB_COLOR=false               # Default: true. Setting to false disables colors
# The following lines would make the colored output bold.
VB_SUCCESS_COLOR='\e[1;92m'  # Bold green.   Default: '\e[0;92m' (green)
VB_WARNING_COLOR='\e[1;93m'  # Bold yellow.  Default: '\e[0;93m' (yellow)
VB_ERROR_COLOR='\e[1;91m'    # Bold red.     Default: '\e[0;91m' (red)

By default, the cache file is $ZSH_CACHE_DIR/vb.cache if running .oh-my-zsh, or ~/.cache/vb/vb.cache if not. To change this, change VB_CACHE to a directory or file name in ~/.vbrc or a startup file. Note that if pointed to a directory (either an existing directory, or a string ending in /), the file name will always be named vb.cache. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created with mkdir -p.

VB_CACHE=$HOME/.vb.cache

Reporting bugs

If you have an idea or find a bug, please create an issue. Just make sure the topic doesn't already exist.

If you have an issue with tab-completion, make sure you have completion enabled for your shell (bash / zsh). If, after reading the manual, you still have problems, feel free to submit an issue.

Self-Promotion

I do these projects for fun, and I enjoy knowing that they're helpful to people. Consider starring the repository if you like it! If you love it, follow me on github!