Before we start scanning, we need a host to target, so let's quickly create the folder structure and Vagrantfile. To create the structure, run the following commands:

$ mkdir scap scap/group_vars scap/roles
$ touch scap/Vagrantfile scap/production scap/site.yml scap/group_vars/common.yml

The scap/Vagrantfile we created should contain the following code:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

API_VERSION = "2"
BOX_NAME = "russmckendrick/centos75"
BOX_IP = "10.20.30.40"
DOMAIN = "nip.io"
PRIVATE_KEY = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
PUBLIC_KEY = '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'

Vagrant.configure(API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = BOX_NAME
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: BOX_IP
  config.vm.host_name = BOX_IP + '.' + DOMAIN
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
  config.ssh.insert_key = false
  config.ssh.private_key_path = [PRIVATE_KEY, "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"]
  config.vm.provision "file", source: PUBLIC_KEY, destination: "~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.memory = "2024"
    v.cpus = "2"
  end

  config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" do |v|
    v.vmx["memsize"] = "2024"
    v.vmx["numvcpus"] = "2"
  end

end

This means that the host inventory file, scap/production, should contain the following:

box1 ansible_host=10.20.30.40.nip.io

[scap]
box1

[scap:vars]
ansible_connection=ssh
ansible_user=vagrant
ansible_private_key_file=~/.ssh/id_rsa
host_key_checking=False 

We can launch the Vagrant box with one of the following commands:

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion

Now that we have our target host ready, we can perform our initial scan.