This repository contains templates for Fedora that can create Vagrant boxes using Packer.
64-bit boxes:
32-bit boxes:
To build all the boxes, you will need VirtualBox and VMware installed.
A GNU Make Makefile
drives the process via the following targets:
make # Build all the box types (VirtualBox, VMware & Parallels)
make test # Run tests against all the boxes
make list # Print out individual targets
make clean # Clean up build detritus
The templates respect the following network proxy environment variables and forward them on to the virtual machine environment during the box creation process, should you be using a proxy:
- http_proxy
- https_proxy
- ftp_proxy
- rsync_proxy
- no_proxy
The tests are written in Serverspec and require the
vagrant-serverspec
plugin to be installed with:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec
The Makefile
has individual targets for each box type with the prefix
test-*
should you wish to run tests individually for each box.
make test-virtualbox/fedora22
Similarly there are targets with the prefix ssh-*
for registering a
newly-built box with vagrant and for logging in using just one command to
do exploratory testing. For example, to do exploratory testing
on the VirtualBox training environmnet, run the following command:
make ssh-virtualbox/fedora22
Upon logout make ssh-*
will automatically de-register the box as well.
You can create a Makefile.local
file alongside the Makefile
to override
some of the default settings. The variables can that can be currently
used are:
- CM
- CM_VERSION
- HEADLESS
- <iso_path>
- UPDATE
Makefile.local
is most commonly used to override the default configuration
management tool, for example with Chef:
# Makefile.local
CM := chef
Changing the value of the CM
variable changes the target suffixes for
the output of make list
accordingly.
Possible values for the CM variable are:
nocm
- No configuration management toolchef
- Install Chefpuppet
- Install Puppetsalt
- Install Salt
You can also specify a variable CM_VERSION
, if supported by the
configuration management tool, to override the default of latest
.
The value of CM_VERSION
should have the form x.y
or x.y.z
,
such as CM_VERSION := 11.12.4
The variable UPDATE
can be used to perform OS patch management. The
default is to not apply OS updates by default. When UPDATE := true
,
the latest OS updates will be applied.
The variable HEADLESS
can be set to run Packer in headless mode.
Set HEADLESS := true
, the default is false.
The variable PACKER
can be used to set the path to the packer binary.
The default is packer
.
The variable ISO_PATH
can be used to set the path to a directory with
OS install images. This override is commonly used to speed up Packer
builds by pointing at pre-downloaded ISOs instead of using the default
download Internet URLs.
SmartyStreets is providing basebox hosting for the box-cutter project.