Vagrant is a tool that is designed to recreate virtual environments that are primarily intended for development. The functionality is based on VirtualBox, and it can use provisioning tools such as Chef, Salt, or Puppet.
It also makes it possible to work with different providers, such as Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean, VMware, and others.
Vagrant uses a configuration file named Vagrantfile, which contains all the configurations needed to provision the desired environment. Once the aforementioned configuration file is created, the vagrant up command is used to install and configure the environment using the provided instructions.
Vagrant has to be installed on the machine before we continue. To do this, follow the tool's documentation available at https://www.vagrantup.com/intro/getting-started/install.html.