Using Vagrant in some Other Interesting Ways.
Sometimes systems administrators need to perform some ‘alternative’ tasks that require some ’temporary’ workspaces.
Does one have a spare machine? Sometimes, but not always.
Well, Vagrant + Virtualbox + fso/xenial64-desktop will give you just that.
Virtualbox supports displaying the VM in Virtualbox, so, once the image is ‘vagrant init fso/xenial64-desktopandvagrant up` you will have a clean, new desktop to work with.
In this case, I helped a junior admin migrate some email to Office 365. We created an encrypted backup after the migration, then destroyed the intermediate machine.