This repository contains templates for Fedora that can create Vagrant boxes using Packer.
64-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/fedora21 - Fedora 21 [Beta] (64-bit), VirtualBox 397MB
- box-cutter/fedora20 - Fedora 20 (64-bit), VMware 429MB/VirtualBox 363MB/Parallels 416MB
- box-cutter/fedora19 - Fedora 19 (64-bit), VMware 398MB/VirtualBox 342MB/Parallels 383MB
- box-cutter/fedora18 - Fedora 18 (64-bit), VMware 366MB/VirtualBox 302MB/Parallels 346MB
32-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/fedora21-i386 - Fedora 21 (32-bit), VirtualBox 394MB
- box-cutter/fedora20-i386 - Fedora 20 (32-bit), VMware 420MB/VirtualBox 357MB/Parallels 413MB
- box-cutter/fedora19-i386 - Fedora 19 (32-bit), VMware 405MB/VirtualBox 336MB/Parallels 378MB
- box-cutter/fedora18-i386 - Fedora 18 (32-bit), VMware 375MB/VirtualBox 301MB/Parallels 346MB
To build all the boxes, you will need Packer and both VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop for Mac installed.
Parallels requires that the Parallels Virtualization SDK for Mac be installed as an additional preqrequisite.
A GNU Make Makefile
drives the process via the following targets:
make # Build all the box types (VirtualBox, VMware & Parallels)
make test # Run tests against all the boxes
make list # Print out individual targets
make clean # Clean up build detritus
The templates respect the following network proxy environment variables and forward them on to the virtual machine environment during the box creation process, should you be using a proxy:
- http_proxy
- https_proxy
- ftp_proxy
- rsync_proxy
- no_proxy
The tests are written in Serverspec and require the
vagrant-serverspec
plugin to be installed with:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec
The Makefile
has individual targets for each box type with the prefix
test-*
should you wish to run tests individually for each box.
Similarly there are targets with the prefix ssh-*
for registering a
newly-built box with vagrant and for logging in using just one command to
do exploratory testing. For example, to do exploratory testing
on the VirtualBox training environmnet, run the following command:
make ssh-box/virtualbox/fedora20-nocm.box
Upon logout make ssh-*
will automatically de-register the box as well.
You can create a Makefile.local
file alongside the Makefile
to override
some of the default settings. The variables can that can be currently
used are:
- CM
- CM_VERSION
- HEADLESS
- <iso_path>
- UPDATE
Makefile.local
is most commonly used to override the default configuration
management tool, for example with Chef:
# Makefile.local
CM := chef
Changing the value of the CM
variable changes the target suffixes for
the output of make list
accordingly.
Possible values for the CM variable are:
nocm
- No configuration management toolchef
- Install Chefpuppet
- Install Puppetsalt
- Install Salt
You can also specify a variable CM_VERSION
, if supported by the
configuration management tool, to override the default of latest
.
The value of CM_VERSION
should have the form x.y
or x.y.z
,
such as CM_VERSION := 11.12.4
The variable UPDATE
can be used to perform OS patch management. The
default is to not apply OS updates by default. When UPDATE := true
,
the latest OS updates will be applied.
The variable HEADLESS
can be set to run Packer in headless mode.
Set HEADLESS := true
, the default is false.
Another use for Makefile.local
is to override the default locations
for the Fedora install ISO files.
For Fedora, the ISO path variables are:
- FEDORA21_X86_64
- FEDORA20_X86_64
- FEDORA19_X86_64
- FEDORA18_X86_64
- FEDORA21_I386
- FEDORA20_I386
- FEDORA19_I386
- FEDORA18_I386
This override is commonly used to speed up Packer builds by
pointing at pre-downloaded ISOs instead of using the default
download Internet URLs:
FEDORA20_X86_64 := file:///Volumes/Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso
CloudBees is providing a hosted Jenkins master through their CloudBees FOSS program. Their On-Premise Executor feature is used to connect physical machines as build slaves running VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware ESXi/vSphere and Hyper-V.