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Standard Debian system, as created by the Debian Installer (all packages with priority required, important, standard), with the following Vagrant specific enhancements: Standard Debian system, as created by the Debian Installer (all packages with priority required, important, standard), with the following Vagrant specific enhancements
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 * Virtual Box Guest additions installed, build with [[DKMS]] using the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package
 * disable udev network persistent naming
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 1. disable DNS resolution in sshd (speed up logins)
 1. use a 0s grub timeout to speed up booting
 * Virtual Box Guest additions installed, build with [[DKMS]] using the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package
 * Disk size improvement:
 1. removing kernel-headers and build-essential after the DKMS step
 1. fill the unused blocks of the file systems with zeroes to reduce disksize		   * disable DNS resolution in sshd (speed up logins)
  * use a 0s grub timeout to speed up booting
 * Disk size improvements:
  * removing kernel-headers and build-essential after the DKMS step
  * fill the unused blocks of the file systems with zeroes to reduce disksize

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Base Box details
    1. Content
    2. Provisioners
    3. Build process
    4. Versioning schema
    5. DFSG
    6. Security
    7. Debian account on Atlas
  3. Todo list
  4. People Involved

Introduction

This is a Work in Progress to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant available in Atlas, the vagrant cloud backend.

Base Box details

Content

Standard Debian system, as created by the Debian Installer (all packages with priority required, important, standard), with the following Vagrant specific enhancements

  • vagrant unix user, setup according to Upstream recommendations

  • Virtual Box Guest additions installed, build with ?DKMS using the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package

  • disable udev network persistent naming
  • Speed improvements
    • disable DNS resolution in sshd (speed up logins)
    • use a 0s grub timeout to speed up booting
  • Disk size improvements:
    • removing kernel-headers and build-essential after the DKMS step
    • fill the unused blocks of the file systems with zeroes to reduce disksize

Provisioners

The box does not include provisioners. You can install them at startup by adding in the Vagrant.configure block in your Vagrantfile 

# puppet
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "apt-get install --yes puppet"
# ansible does not need a client, but needs python-apt to install packages
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "apt-get install --yes python-apt"

Build process

The boxes are currently with Packer from the following git repository http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/debian-vm-templates.git/ and uploaded to Hashicorps's Atlas.

See ?Teams/Cloud/RebuildVagrantBaseBoxes to build the boxes yourself or extend them.

Versioning schema

We use the following versioning scheme: DEBIAN VERSION NUMBER + BOX VERSION Ex: 8.0.4 means we use the box uses the Debian release 8.0, the .4 means it is the fourth version based on this release that we uploaded to Atlas

DFSG

The build process requires the non-free virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package, the rest of the build chain and installed packages are DFSG compliant.

Security

For end to end verification, vagrant has built-in checksumming support, so it is be possible to do something like: 

gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg gpg: Signature made Fri 11 Sep 2015 12:19:50 AM CEST using RSA key ID 91E95791
gpg: Good signature from "Emmanuel "Kasper" Kasprzyk <emmanuel@libera.cc>"

vagrant box add --checksum $(grep debian-jessie.box SHA256SUMS | awk '{print $1}') --checksum-type sha256  debian/jessie64 https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian/boxes/jessie64/versions/8.2.0/providers/virtualbox.box

Debian account on Atlas

Currently owned by EmmanuelKasper and AntonioTerceiro, upload rights have been granted to ?JanNiggerman

Todo list

We use this trello board: https://trello.com/b/lVRI6QJt/offical-debian-vagrant-base-boxes

People Involved

JanNiggemann, EmmanuelKasper, Antonio Terceiro