napramirez/baseboxes

Vagrant Baseboxes

Vagrant Virtualbox Baseboxes for automated Atlas Builds

Hashicorp Atlas introduced periodic builds for Virtualbox Vagrant Boxes. I use this for daily updatet boxes with the latest kernels and packages.

Use the Boxes

Requires

• Vagrant
• Virtualbox

You can use command line Vagrant in order to download and use the boxes:

blacklabelops/centos7

$ vagrant init blacklabelops/centos7
$ vagrant up

blacklabelops/centos-7.1.1503

$ vagrant init blacklabelops/centos-7.1.1503
$ vagrant up

blacklabelops/centos-7.2.1511

$ vagrant init blacklabelops/centos-7.2.1511
$ vagrant up

Update your Boxes

Each box should have a new version each day.

Check your local box version against the available box version:

$ vagrant box outdated

Do this for all local boxes:

$ vagrant box outdated --global

Update your local box with the following command:

$ vagrant box update

Use a Fixed Box Version

You can fix the version you use.

Template command:

$ vagrant init blacklabelops/{{ box }} https://atlas.hashicorp.com/blacklabelops/boxes/{{ box }}/versions/{{ version }}

Example:

$ vagrant init blacklabelops/centos7 https://atlas.hashicorp.com/blacklabelops/boxes/centos7/versions/2015.1206.091558
$ vagrant up

Downloads blacklabelops/centos7 in version 2015.1206.091558. The version number is a iso encoded timestamp! (yyyy.mmdd.hhmmss)

Finally deactivate update checks by uncommenting the following line in your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.box_check_update = false

Purge your boxes

Easiest way to get rid of all boxes and versions is by deleting the box folder.

Note: You will loose all local Vagrant Boxes! This will also corrupt not destroyed running Vagrant Boxes!

$ rm -rf ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/*

Build a Box

The following project covers the topic of building Vagrant boxes :

blacklabelops/packercentos

References

• Vagrant Homepage
• Packer Homepage
• Virtualbox Homepage
• Atlas Homepage