Managing Vagrant boxes

We can manage Vagrant boxes using the vagrant box command. Let's run this command with the help flag (--help) and see what subcommands are available:

vagrant box --help

Running this command gives the following result:

There are six available box-related subcommands. With each of these, we can provide the --help flag to see what additional arguments are available. The available box-related subcommands are:

• add: This command adds a new box
• list: This command lists all boxes installed
• outdated: This command checks whether any boxes have updates available
• remove: This command removes a box from the host
• repackage: This command converts a Vagrant environment into a distributable box
• update: This command will update the box being used by the current running Vagrant environment

Adding Vagrant boxes

The add subcommand allows us to add a new box. It takes a single argument and a number of optional flags. The argument is a name, URL, or path to a box file. If a name is provided...