$ vagrant up ubuntuīringing machine 'ubuntu' up with 'virtualbox' provider. For the purpose of this post it doesn’t really matter though. In hindsight I should have gone for 18.04 instead, as it’s much newer. I have decided to use the latest Ubuntu 16.04 box from HashiCorp’s Vagrant cloud for no particular reason. Let’s start with an example to demonstrate the case. If you are unsure about these security related discussion points, review the documentation about creating one’s own Vagrant boxes (section “Default User Settings”) for some additional background information.Ĭontinuing the discussion from the previous post, what does a dynamically injected SSH key imply for the use with the SSH agent? Vagrant cloud, boxes, and the insecure key pair Nevertheless there are occasions when you can’t create your own Vagrant box, and you have to resort to the Vagrant insecure-key-pair-swap procedure instead. The previous post emphasised my preference for using custom Vagrant boxes and my own SSH keys. This also forces me to make sure that all my infrastructure is 100% automated-if I have any special snowflakes around that I'd be afraid to delete by removing its base box.In an earlier article I described how you could use SSH keys to log into a Vagrant box created by the Virtualbox provider. Since I maintain a half-dozen open-source Vagrant boxes, and use a few dozen other boxes frequently in testing and building software, I like being able to clean out old boxes quickly to conserve disk space (same thing with Docker-I frequently delete ALL downloaded images). And if you have multiple boxes per provider, or if you have multiple versions of the same box, you'll likely need to modify the command a bit.

You can use xargs' -t option to output the commands being run just before they're executed. xargs -L 1 vagrant box remove -f: Use xargs to run one command per line, running the command vagrant box remove -f.cut -f 1 -d ' ': Cuts the list and takes out just the first column (using spaces to delimit the columns).

vagrant box list: Prints out a list of all installed vagrant boxes (with two columns-box name or path, and meta info).

Assuming you have only one box per provider, this command will delete ALL Vagrant boxes you currently have on your system: $ vagrant box list | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | xargs -L 1 vagrant box remove -f

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