Automate a Puppet dev/test environment with Vagrant and Bolt

Create a local dev env by installing VMware Workstation Pro (free for personal use), git, and VSCode, and Vagrant

1. Install Vagrant VMware Utility

• https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/providers/vmware/vagrant-vmware-utility

2. Install vagrant manually.
3. Install vagrant plugins:

• vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-VMware-desktop

If Vagrant is installed before VMware or any provider, it will not

recognize the VMware provider ¹

Footnotes

1. The common error is: "No usable default provider could be found for your system." Configure the following ENV var in the user scope: VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER vmware_desktop ↩