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Contents
Introduction
This is a Work in Progress to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant available in Atlas, the vagrant cloud backend.
This blog post from Joey Hess provides a good overview of why we need official Debian base boxes.
Base Box details
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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
vagrant unix user, setup according to Upstream recommendations
Virtual Box Guest additions installed, build with ?DKMS using the virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package
- 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"
Shared folders
This boxes use vagrant rsync to share the current directory to the /vagrant directory inside the box. Syncing happens once when you fires vagrant up, if you want this to happen continuously in the background, start vagrant rsync-auto afterwards.
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.
GPG verification
Signed checksums of the latest boxes are available at https://cloud.alioth.debian.org/vagrantboxes/
After downloading SHA256SUMS.gpg and SHA256SUMS from above, your can verify the box authenticity with:
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-jessie64.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