vagrant-baseboxes-salt

This repository contains packer templates used to build ek9 vagrant baseboxes with SaltStack. This is a customized and maintained fork of packer-templates by kaorimatz.

Baseboxes

This is a list of built baseboxes:

Quickly initialize and get basebox running with Vagrant:

$ vagrant init ek9/alpine-3-salt-x86_64
$ vagrant up

VirtualBox Guest Modules are NOT compatible with Alpine Linux. To make various vagrant features work (i.e. private networking or synced folders) you are required to use vagrant-alpine plugin. To install the plugin,run:
```
  $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-alpine
```
In order to use Synced Folders, you are required to use either NFS or rsync. Make sure vagrant-alpine plugin is installed if you plan to use NFS. To switch default /vagrant share to NFS, add this to Vagrantfile:
```
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "NFS"
```
Alternatively, you can disable the default /vagrant share:
```
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
```

$ vagrant init ek9/archlinux-salt-x86_64
$ vagrant up

$ vagrant init ek9/centos-7-salt-x86_64
$ vagrant up

$ vagrant init ek9/debian-8-salt-amd64
$ vagrant up

$ vagrant init ek9/openbsd-6-salt-amd64
$ vagrant up

In order to manually build the boxes, clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/ek9/vagrant-baseboxes-salt && cd vagrant-baseboxes-salt

To build a machine, you will have to pass template file to use to packer build command:

When building, you can build a box for the following providers (via -only= argument):

Additionally, you can specify a variable file (via -var-file file) which can be used to customize some of the build variables:

To build a specific VM, use this command:

$ bin/packer build -var-file vars/release.json -only=virtualbox-iso template.json

Once the box is built you will see a .box file in the main directory which you can add to vagrant under custom-name and initialize:

$ vagrant box add custom-name template.box
$ vagrant init custom-name
$ vagrant up