Install librarian-chef gem gem install librarian-chef And Vagrant plugins vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus Move to repo directory and run librarian-chef install This will install all the cookbooks mentioned in Cheffile. To install Huginn on AWS, fill the Vagrantfile with your account details and run vagrant up ec2 --provider=aws To install it on a virtualbox VM: vagrant up vb It'll install huginn and get the server started. You can now go to `yourserver.com/3000` to use huginn if you are in virtualbox. On ec2, pointing to public DNS will let you access huginn. Huginn will be at `/home/huginn/huginn`. A new dedicated user will be created for managing huginn with username `huginn` and password `huginn`. To ssh into ec2: vagrant ssh ec2 Similarly, to ssh into VirtualBox vagrant ssh vb After ssh-ing into ec2, you can start(its already running), stop or restart huginn by sudo start huginn sudo stop huginn sudo restart huginn To terminate ec2 instance: vagrant destroy ec2 Similarly, to destroy VirtualBox VM vagrant destroy vb