Who
Both EmmanuelKasper and JanNiggemann want to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant that shall be available through https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian
= Why do we need official base boxes
Current Status
Vagrant Base boxes for Virtualbox are generated with Packer from the following git repository https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/packer-templates and uploaded to Hashicorps's Atlas: From there it's possible to install a Debian Jessie base box with:
vagrant init debian/jessie64
As packer is not yet packaged in Debian, we might have to switch to bootstrap-vz to create the images.
Plan
- document what should nbe include / 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