tinytux / vms

My Virtual Machines

My Virtual Machines

Automated provisioning powered by packer.io and some shell scripts. Tested on a Debian Stretch (testing) host.

Create a Vagrant base box with Packer

Packer creates a new virtual machine, installs the base operating system from an .iso file and packs the VM into a Vagrant box. Vagrant can use this box as template to create customized virtual machines. Features:

• en_US.UTF-8 locale with Swiss German keyboard
• works behind a proxy (use http_proxy, https_proxy, ftp_proxy and no_proxy)

Usage:

$ git clone https://github.com/tinytux/vms.git
$ cd vms
$ ./build.sh qemu/ubuntu-bionic.json
$ ./build.sh qemu/debian-stretch.json
$ ./build.sh qemu/debian-jessie.json
$ ./build.sh vmware/ubuntu-bionic.json
$ ./build.sh vmware/debian-stretch.json
$ ./build.sh vmware/debian-jessie.json

Create virtual machines with Vagrant

Install qemu-kvm, vagrant and the libvirt provider (qemu + kvm). Debian Stretch may need this workaround.

$ sudo apt-get install libvirt-daemon-system
$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.1.5/vagrant_2.1.5_x86_64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install vagrant_2.1.5_x86_64.deb
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-bindfs

Install VMware Workstation for Linux (license required), vagrant-vmware-workstation plugin (license required) and vagrant:

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.1.5/vagrant_2.1.5_x86_64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install vagrant_2.1.5_x86_64.deb
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-workstation
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-bindfs

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

• Based on the ubuntu-bionic.json (see above)

Usage:

$ cd ubuntu-bionic
$ vagrant up

Debian Stretch

• Based on the debian-stretch.json (see above)

Usage:

$ cd debian-stretch-gnome
$ vagrant up

Debian Jessie multi-machine

• Based on the debian-jessie.json (see above)

• Node configuration defined in nodes.yaml

  $ cd debian-jessie-mm $ vagrant up

Debian Jessie with Elastic, Logstash and Kibana

• Based on the debian-jessie.json (see above)

Usage:

$ cd debian-jessie-elk 
$ vagrant up

Debian Jessie

• Based on the debian-jessie.json (see above)

Usage:

$ cd debian-jessie 
$ vagrant up

CloudSigma

• Control CloudSigma nodes

Configuration:

$ cat ~/.cloudsigma.conf 
$ # https://github.com/cloudsigma/pycloudsigma
$ api_endpoint = https://zrh.cloudsigma.com/api/2.0/
$ ws_endpoint = wss://direct.zrh.cloudsigma.com/websocket
$ username = myusername 
$ password = mypassword

Usage:

$ cd cloudsigma
$ ./cloud.py --help
usage: cloud.py [-h] [-ls] [--create CREATE] [--start START] [--stop STOP]
                 [--destroy DESTROY]
 
CloudSigma remote node utility
 
optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -ls, --list        List all servers.
  --create CREATE    Create and start a server.
  --start START      Start a server.
  --stop STOP        Stop a server.
  --destroy DESTROY  Destroy (permanently delete) a server and all associated
                     disks. Use with care!