Explicitly ssh into vagrant machine

After building vagrant machine the command to ssh into the guest machine is pretty simple.

vagarnt ssh

While working with chef I needed to explicitly ssh into the vagrant machine. It took me sometime to figure it out.

The key is command vagrant ssh-config. The output might look like this.

$ vagrant ssh-config
Host vmachine
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /Users/nsingh/code/vagrant-machine/.vagrant/machines/vmachine/virtualbox/private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL
  ForwardAgent yes

Open ~/.ssh/config and paste the output at the end of the file and save the file.

Now I can ssh into vagrant machine using ssh command as shown below.

ssh vmachine

If you are wondering from where the name vmachine came then this is the name I had given to my vagrant machine .