» Provisioning

This is useful since typically are notbuilt perfectly for your use case. Of course, if you want to just usevagrant ssh and install the software by hand, that works. But by usingthe provisioning systems built-in to Vagrant, it automates the process sothat it is repeatable. Most importantly, it requires no human interaction,so you can vagrant destroy and and have a fully ready-to-gowork environment with a single command. Powerful.

Vagrant gives you multiple options for provisioning the machine, fromsimple shell scripts to more complex, industry-standard configurationmanagement systems.

You can find the full list of built-in provisioners and usage of theseprovisioners in the navigational area to the left.

Provisioning happens at certain points during the lifetime of yourVagrant environment: