Lightsail Vagrant Provider

vagrant-lightsail is a Vagrant 1.2+ plugin that support managing Lightsail instances.

It can:

• Create and destroy instances
• Power on and off instances
• Provision an instance
• Setup an SSH public key for authentication
• Open public firewall ports on instance

It is based heavily on vagrant-aws and vagrant-digitalocean.

Install the provider plugin using the Vagrant command-line interface:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-lightsail

After installing the plugin, specify all the details within the config.vm.provider block in your Vagrantfile.

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
  config.ssh.private_key_path = 'PATH TO YOUR PRIVATE KEY'
  config.ssh.username         = 'ubuntu'
  config.vm.box               = 'lightsail'
  config.vm.box_url           = 'https://github.com/thejandroman/vagrant-lightsail/raw/master/box/lightsail.box'

  config.vm.provider :lightsail do |provider, override|
    provider.access_key_id     = 'YOUR KEY'
    provider.secret_access_key = 'YOUR SECRET KEY'
    provider.keypair_name      = 'KEYPAIR NAME'
    provider.port_info         = [{ from_port: 443, to_port: 443, protocol: 'tcp' }]
  end
end

And then run vagrant up.

This will start an Ubuntu instance in the us-east-1a availability zone within your account.

Note: if you don't configure provider.access_key_id or provider.secret_access_key it will attempt to read credentials from environment variables first and then from $HOME/.aws/. You can choose your AWS profile and files location by using provider.aws_profile and provider.aws_dir, however environment variables will always have precedence as defined by the AWS documentation. To use profile vagrantDev from your AWS files:

provider.aws_dir = ENV['HOME'] + "/.aws/"
provider.aws_profile = "vagrantDev"

The following attributes are available to configure the provider:

• access_key_id
  • The access key for accessing AWS
• availability_zone
  • The availability zone within the region to launch the instance. If nil, it will append a to the region.
• aws_dir
  • AWS config and credentials location. Defaults to $HOME/.aws/.
• aws_profile
  • AWS profile in your config files. Defaults to default.
• blueprint_id
  • The ID for a virtual private server image. Defaults to ubuntu_16_04.
• bundle_id
  • The bundle of specification information for the instance, including the pricing plan. Defaults to nano_1_0.
• endpoint
  • A regional endpoint.
• keypair_name
  • The name to use when creating an SSH key for authentication. Defaults to vagrant.
• port_info
  • Array of ports to open. See below.
• region
  • The region to start the instance in. Defaults to us-east-1.
• secret_access_key
  • The secret access key for accessing AWS.
• session_token
  • The session token provided by STS.
• user_data
  • Plain text user data for the instance being booted.

The plugin supports opening firewall ports via the port_info configuration parmater. Any number of port hashes can be specified in the array but they must contain only the following keys:

• from_port
  • Type: Integer The first port in the range. Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 65535.
• protocol
  • Type: String The protocol. Valid Values: tcp | all | udp
• to_port
  • Type: Integer The last port in the range. Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 65535.

Open port TCP:443

provider.port_info = [{ from_port: 443, to_port: 443, protocol: 'tcp' }]

Open ports TCP:3306 and UDP:161

provider.port_info = [
    { from_port: 3306, to_port: 3306, protocol: 'tcp' },
    { from_port: 161,  to_port: 161,  protocol: 'udp' },
]

• Fork and clone repo
• Install bundler

gem install bundler -v 1.12.5

• Install dependencies

bundle install

• Run tests

bundle exec rake test

• Make code changes
• Run tests again
• Update README.md and CHANGELOG.md
• Create a Pull Request!

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.