SSH a Vagrant VM

Vagrant provides a easy-peasy way of connecting to the VM that was created.

$ vagrant ssh

I’m experimenting Ansible - a provisining automation tool. It uses SSH to connect to the remote machine and execute the commands it needs to provision a new computer instance. For that we need to know the SSH parameters so it is able to connect to our instance. You can check the SSH configs with the following command:

$ vagrant ssh-config
Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /Users/arthur/dev/vagrant-ssh-test/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

The important lines here are:

  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  IdentityFile /Users/arthur/dev/vagrant-ssh-test/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

Using the information collected you can now connect using plain SSH as shown below:

ssh vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p 2222 -i /Users/arthur/dev/vagrant-ssh-test/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key