Vagrant - updating boxes

Question

linux

Good afternoon!
I am studying vagrant, I made my own base box and the question arose - is it possible to somehow update an already installed box to a new version? And if so, how? At the moment, all my experiments and googling indicate that I will have to demolish the old VM and re-initialize the vagrant box of the new version.
The second question is what is better to use for standalone provisioning? Chef?
I want the box to already have configured software after installation, and if I correctly name the life cycle of the boxes - when a new version is released, we delete the old one and initialize the new one, which installs all the necessary software through provision, including the new one that I added to new version. So?
Those. now I have a box that I set up, registered autostarts and everything else, and at startup it immediately gives me a working environment that is already running. Those. without provision - I just packed the virtual machine into a box. And the problem is that I can’t update it later - all the software that I install and configure appears only if I demolish the old VM and create a new one. Is this the only way vagrant can do it?

Answer 1

" Finally, you can update boxes with vagrant box update . This will download and install the new box. This will not magically update running Vagrant environments. If a Vagrant environment is already running, you'll have to destroy and recreate it to acquire the new updates in the box. The update command just downloads these updates locally. "
taken from here

Answer 2

1. Why update the installed box to a new version. You can update the software inside the installed box via provision.
2. Yes, you understood correctly.
I update the box as soon as a new OS comes out, and the software is updated through Chef.
Understand some version control system (Chef, Puppet) this will give more advanced settings for installing software