How to ssh to vagrant without actually running “vagrant ssh”?

Question

I would like to reproduce the way Vagrant logs in to my VM within a shell script using an ssh command, so I create an alias to my Vagrant instance.

What

Answer 1

If you just want to set it up so you can use normal the normal ssh commandline, as well as scp and such, you can run vagrant ssh-config and append the output to your default ssh configuration. If you replace the line "Host default" with a more descriptive hostname, you should be good to go.

vagrant ssh-config |sed -e "s/Host default/Host my_cool_dev_box/" >> ~/.ssh/config
ssh my_cool_dev_box