Intro

Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments, e.g. for VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker containers, VMware, and AWS. It tries to simplify software configuration management of virtualizations in order to increase development productivity.

Download And Install

Get the program here: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Tips and Notes

• Any files in the same (host) directory as the vagrant file will be shared with the VMs under /vagrant/

Bringing Up A Splunk Instance

Using this recipe file (Splunk Vagrantfile) from Lynda.com Learning Splunk, you can bring up an instance of Splunk on VirtualBox.

vagrant up

SSH Into Splunk Instance

vagrant ssh splunk

Download and Install Splunk

Download free version of Splunk and install it

sudo su -

wget -O splunk-7.3.1-bd63e13aa157-linux-2.6-amd64.deb 'https://www.splunk.com/bin/splunk/DownloadActivityServlet?architecture=x86_64&platform=linux&version=7.3.1&product=splunk&filename=splunk-7.3.1-bd63e13aa157-linux-2.6-amd64.deb&wget=true'

dpkg -i splunk-7.3.1-bd63e13aa157-linux-2.6-amd64.deb

Set Initial Admin Password

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start

Set Splunk To Run At Boot Time

Use these commands to set splunk to auto-start on boot.

cd /opt/splunk/bin
./splunk enable boot-start
systemctl enable splunk
systemctl start splunk

Connect To Web Interface

In a browser, connect to this IP address which the VB Splunk vm has been set to.

http://192.168.33.10:8000