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Introduction

Vagrant is a tool to manage virtual machine-based development environments. Vagrant Boxes are pre-built base images that can be imported into Vagrant as a starting point. Read more about Vagrant here. On this page Oracle publishes Vagrant boxes based on Oracle Linux.

Using Oracle Linux Vagrant boxes

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Prerequisites

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You will need the following software installed on your machine. Check the minimum required versions in the Vagrant Box description.

  • Oracle Database. Oracle database products offer customers cost-optimized and high-performance versions of Oracle Database, the world's leading converged, multi-model database management system, as well as in-memory, NoSQL and MySQL databases.
  • Unlike other software, Oracle is constantly being updated and patched with new security measures to help prevent malicious or unwanted intruders from accessing your data. The owners and developers of Oracle understand the importance of data security, and as such, they maintain some of the worlds most secure software.

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These boxes are configured as follows:

  • 2 vCPUs
  • 2048 MB RAM
  • Minimal package set installed
  • 32 GiB root volume
  • 4 GiB swap
  • XFS root filesystem
  • Guest additions installed
  • Yum configured for Oracle Linux yum server. _latest and _addons repos enabled as well as _optional_latest, _developer, _developer_EPEL where available.

Oracle Linux boxes for the VirtualBox Vagrant Provider

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Oracle Linux boxes for the libvirt Vagrant Provider

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Adding, downloading and starting the Oracle Linux Vagrant Box

Create a working directory for your development project and from within that directory, issue the following commands, subsituting the url for one of the following, depending on the release of Oracle Linux you want:

  • Oracle Linux 8: https://oracle.github.io/vagrant-projects/boxes/oraclelinux/8.json
  • Oracle Linux 7: https://oracle.github.io/vagrant-projects/boxes/oraclelinux/7.json

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$ vagrant init oraclelinux/{release} <box json url>
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

For example:

$ vagrant init oraclelinux/7 https://oracle.github.io/vagrant-projects/boxes/oraclelinux/7.json
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

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Updating an Oracle Linux box

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To check whether an of your installed boxes have available updates:

$ vagrant box outdated --global

To update an Vagrant box to the latest available version:

$ vagrant box update --box oraclelinux/7

Sample Vagrant projects with Oracle products on GitHub

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Example Vagrant projects that provision Oracle products including Oracle Database 19c, Oracle Dataguard, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Container Services for Kubernetes, and more are available on github.com/oracle

Where can I get help with these Vagrant boxes?

These Vagrant Boxes are provided as is, free of charge and without support from Oracle. Peer support is available in the Oracle Linux space on the Oracle Developer Community.

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