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This provisions a Vagrant machine, running (eventually) an Ubuntu 18.04 Machine
(optionally with a desktop environment) in Virtualbox, but including the
openstack
command and the ability to use Ansible against the K5 OpenStack
environment. More recent versions also now include the az
command for working
with the Microsoft Azure platform.
To use this, you must have Vagrant installed, Virtualbox installed and it is recommended that you have the Virtualbox Extension Pack (from the download page on the Virtualbox site) installed.
It adds a user account with your credentials (provided you configure them in
group_vars\all\credentials.yml
), and can optionally use a caching proxy
(such as apt-cachier-ng
) if you have one in your network.
This build mounts two directories - /HostHome and /HostHomeExec - against the host machine's user home directory. I personally create the following links in the machine:
/HostHome/Standard_Build/dotfiles/ssh
to$HOME/.ssh
/HostHomeExec/Standard_Build/bin
to$HOME/bin
This means that for the files that shouldn't have the exec bits set (SSH keys, etc.) I can use the /HostHome path for them, but for the paths that do require exec bits (like scripts), then they can be executed at will.
- Without changes, the standard build gives you an Ubuntu Server build. If you
tweak the group_vars/all/vars.yml and configure the value
DesktopEnvironment
with one of the options there (ubuntu-desktop
,kubuntu-desktop
,lubuntu-desktop
,xubuntu-desktop
orubuntu-mate-desktop
) then these will install official flavours of Ubuntu into your Virtual Machine (note, these will) take a LONG time to install.