Proxy Configuration Plugin for Vagrant

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A Vagrant plugin that configures the virtual machine to use specified proxies. This is useful for example in case you are behind a corporate proxy server, or you have a caching proxy (for example polipo).

At this state we support:

• Generic http_proxy etc. environment variables that many programs support
• APT proxy/cacher
• Setting default proxy configuration for all Chef provisioners

Quick start

Install the plugin:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf

To configure all possible software on all Vagrant VMs, add the following to $HOME/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile (or to a project specific Vagrantfile):

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.proxy.http     = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/"
  config.proxy.https    = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/"
  config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1,.example.com"
  # ... other stuff
end

Compatibility

This plugin requires Vagrant 1.2 or newer (downloads).

The plugin is supposed to be compatible with all Vagrant providers and other plugins. Please file an issue if this is not the case. The following providers are confirmed to work: AWS, Digital Ocean, VirtualBox, VMware Fusion.

For the proxy configuration to take effect for vagrant-omnibus plugin, version 1.1.1 or newer of it should be used.

Usage

Install using standard Vagrant plugin installation method: vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf. See the wiki for instructions to install a pre-release version.

The plugin hooks itself to all Vagrant commands triggering provisioning (e.g. vagrant up, vagrant provision, etc.). The proxy configurations are written just before provisioners are run.

Proxy settings can be configured in Vagrantfile. In the common case that you want to use the same configuration in all Vagrant machines, you can use $HOME/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile or environment variables. Platform specific settings are only used on virtual machines that support them (i.e. Apt configuration on Debian based systems), so there is no harm using global configuration.

Project specific Vagrantfile overrides global settings. Environment variables override both.

Default/global configuration

It's a common case that you want all possible connections to pass through the same proxy. This will set the default values for all other proxy configuration keys. It also sets default proxy configuration for all Chef Solo and Chef Client provisioners.

Example Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.proxy.http     = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/"
  config.proxy.https    = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/"
  config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1,.example.com"
  # ... other stuff
end

Configuration keys

• config.proxy.http - The proxy for HTTP URIs
• config.proxy.https - The proxy for HTTPS URIs
• config.proxy.ftp - The proxy for FTP URIs
• config.proxy.no_proxy - A comma separated list of hosts or domains which do not use proxies.

Possible values

• If all keys are unset or nil, no configuration is written.
• A proxy should be specified in the form of protocol://[user:pass@]host[:port].
• Empty string ("") or false in any setting also force the configuration files to be written, but without configuration for that key. Can be used to clear the old configuration and/or override a global setting.

Environment variables

• VAGRANT_HTTP_PROXY
• VAGRANT_HTTPS_PROXY
• VAGRANT_FTP_PROXY
• VAGRANT_NO_PROXY

These also override the Vagrantfile configuration. To disable or remove the proxy use an empty value.

For example to spin up a VM, run:

VAGRANT_HTTP_PROXY="http://proxy.example.com:8080" vagrant up

Global *_proxy environment variables

Many programs (wget, curl, yum, etc.) can be configured to use proxies with <protocol>_proxy or <PROTOCOL>_PROXY environment variables. This configuration will be written to /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh on the guest.

Also sudo will be configured to preserve the variables. This requires that sudo in the VM is configured to support "sudoers.d", i.e. /etc/sudoers contains line #includedir /etc/sudoers.d.

Example Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.env_proxy.http     = "http://192.168.33.200:8888/"
  config.env_proxy.https    = "$http_proxy"
  config.env_proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1,.example.com"
  # ... other stuff
end

Configuration keys

• config.env_proxy.http - The proxy for HTTP URIs
• config.env_proxy.https - The proxy for HTTPS URIs
• config.env_proxy.ftp - The proxy for FTP URIs
• config.env_proxy.no_proxy - A comma separated list of hosts or domains which do not use proxies.

Possible values

• If all keys are unset or nil, no configuration is written.
• A proxy can be specified in the form of protocol://[user:pass@]host[:port].
• The values are used as specified, so you can use for example variables that will be evaluated by the shell on the VM.
• Empty string ("") or false in any setting also force the configuration file to be written, but without configuration for that key. Can be used to clear the old configuration and/or override a global setting.

Environment variables

• VAGRANT_ENV_HTTP_PROXY
• VAGRANT_ENV_HTTPS_PROXY
• VAGRANT_ENV_FTP_PROXY
• VAGRANT_ENV_NO_PROXY

These also override the Vagrantfile configuration. To disable or remove the proxy use an empty value.

For example to spin up a VM, run:

VAGRANT_ENV_HTTP_PROXY="http://proxy.example.com:8080" vagrant up

Apt

Configures Apt to use the specified proxy settings. The configuration will be written to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy on the guest.

Example Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.apt_proxy.http  = "192.168.33.1:3142"
  config.apt_proxy.https = "DIRECT"
  # ... other stuff
end

Configuration keys

• config.apt_proxy.http - The proxy for HTTP URIs
• config.apt_proxy.https - The proxy for HTTPS URIs
• config.apt_proxy.ftp - The proxy for FTP URIs

Possible values

• If all keys are unset or nil, no configuration is written.
• A proxy can be specified in the form of [http://][user:pass@]host[:port]. So all but the host part are optional. The default port is 3142 and protocol is the same as the key.
• Empty string ("") or false in any protocol also force the configuration file to be written, but without configuration for that protocol. Can be used to clear the old configuration and/or override a global setting.
• "DIRECT" can be used to specify that no proxy should be used. This is mostly useful for disabling proxy for HTTPS URIs when HTTP proxy is set (as Apt defaults to the latter).
• Please refer to apt.conf(5) manual for more information.

Environment variables

• VAGRANT_APT_HTTP_PROXY
• VAGRANT_APT_HTTPS_PROXY
• VAGRANT_APT_FTP_PROXY

These also override the Vagrantfile configuration. To disable or remove the proxy use "DIRECT" or an empty value.

For example to spin up a VM, run:

VAGRANT_APT_HTTP_PROXY="proxy.example.com:8080" vagrant up

Running apt-cacher-ng on a Vagrant box

apt-cacher-box gives an example for setting up apt-cacher proxy server in a Vagrant VM.

Related plugins and projects

• apt-cacher-box
  a Vagrant setup for apt-cacher-ng.
• polipo-box
  a Vagrant setup for polipo caching web proxy.
• vagrant-cachier
  An excellent Vagrant plugin that shares various cache directories among similar VM instances. Should work fine together with vagrant-proxyconf.