[Fusionforge-general] Development VM auto-generated with Vagrant/Packer

Sylvain Beucler - Inria sylvain.beucler at inria.fr
Wed Jan 29 18:52:06 CET 2014


Added in tools/VM-bootstrap :)

- Sylvain

Le mardi 28 janvier 2014 à 18:34 +0100, Sylvain Beucler - Inria a
écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I took some time to investigate how to regenerate the Development VM
> from scratch! I used Vagrant and Packer(.io).
> 
> Vagrant offers a best practice environment to distribute and run dev
> VMs, including a .box bundle format, and a few conventions (such as
> using a 'vagrant' user with default sudo privs). New users should feel
> as ease with it.
> 
> Packer (from the same author/company) can generate VMs from scratch
> using ISO+preseed techniques, and then provision the VM using tools
> ranging from shell scripts to Puppet, and generates the
> appropriate .box.  This is cleaner and safer than reusing one of the
> Vagrant Debian images lying around.
> 
> Limitation: these tools are primarily built on VirtualBox. Support for
> libvirt/kvm is available through plugins in Vagrant, and is available in
> Packer except for the final .box generation.
> 
> Attached is a first version. README enclosed :)
> It produces a ~520MB fusionforge-dev.box in a matter of minutes.
> Let me know if it works for you.




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