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Who
Both EmmanuelKasper and JanNiggemann want to build official Debian base boxes for Vagrant that shall be available through https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian
General guidelines
Why do we need official base boxes as seen by the problem of images from the docker.op registry
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 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