General guidelines
We want to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant that shall be available in Vagrant the cloud backend, and maybe via debian-cd.
Why do we need official base boxes as seen by the problem of images from the docker.io registry
Current Status
Available Images
Vanilla Vagrant Base boxes for Virtualbox (only stuff from main + tasksel "standard") are available in Vagrant cloud. These boxes are uploaded by a Debian Maintainer but have no offical status at the momment.
If you have Vagrant installed you get Debian Jessie very quickly with
vagrant init debian/jessie64 vagrant up vagrant ssh
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.
DFSG
As the Building process requires the non-free virtualbox-guest-additions-iso package, are suitable for 'contrib', but not for 'main'
Security
When using the vagrant command line tool, boxes are downloaded via HTTPS. There is no kind of GPG signing.
Plan
- document what should be included / not included in the box
create a "alpha" box to gather feedback (<- done)
- re-iterate the above to get more feedback
- agree on what and how to document
- create useful documentation
- figure out how to automate upload of boxes to my own account on atlas
- request delegation from DPL
- do whatever is necessary to setup and maintain an official debian account on atlas
- monitor debian-announce and build new boxes when necessary