Sharing Vagrant boxes with Atlas
Following the release of Vagrant 1.5, HashiCorp introduced a new service to support the publication and sharing of Vagrant boxes either for public or private collaboration. In late 2014, this functionality was folded into HashiCorp's Atlas project (http://atlas.hashicorp.com). In earlier recipes, we used the Atlas repository to discover boxes, whereas now we wish to publish our own boxes to share it with others.
Following the release of Vagrant 1.5, HashiCorp introduced a new service to support the discovery and publication of Vagrant boxes: the Vagrant Cloud (http://vagrantcloud.com). The Vagrant Cloud was introduced to share Vagrant environments in Chapter 6, Vagrant in the Cloud. In this recipe, we will create a box file for distribution to a wider audience.
Getting ready
Before we can share boxes using Atlas, there are a few things to keep in mind about how to use your the Atlas account:
Hosting (uploading) boxes to Atlas itself will require a paid account...
