Automate vertica cluster provisioning with saltstack. A lot of my vagrant setups use provisioning scripts to automate the download and configuration of various tools as. Vagrant and virtualbox are useful general purpose programs, so you might want to keep them around. The vagrant ansible provisioner allows you to provision the guest using ansible playbooks by executing ansibleplaybook from the vagrant host. Go to the vagrant download page, choose your operating system windows or macos and download and install the software.
Im using vagrant boxes for several purposes, and in most cases the prepared boxes i can download are totally sufficient. First catch is that it is run as the ssh user vagrant by default without sudo, so you need to. Quick start to vagrant on windows 10 software test academy. Ive written a couple posts on how to create vagrant boxes for windows and how to try and get the base image as small as possible. How to upload configuration files using the shell provider. Using vagrant for windows vms provisioning dots and. Make sure you have run vagrant init on any machine you want to appear in vagrant manager. Provisioning provisioners in vagrant allow you to automatically install software, alter configurations, and more on the machine as part of the vagrant up process this is useful since boxes typically are not built perfectly for your use case. This incorporating a reboot during the provisioning process is something.
Quick start to vagrant on windows 10 in this article, i will show you how to install and use vagrant on windows 10. A beginners guide to vagrant, part 2 provisioning and puppet. After seeing this list i was trying to find a way to cleanup the old version of installed boxes in vagrant and found the following command. Terraform commands cli terraform is controlled via a very easy to use commandline interface cli. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. Of course, if you want to just use vagrant ssh and install the software by hand, that works. How to use vagrant provisioning to install a package. Its time to use provisioners to help us with these tasks. Vagrant is trusted by thousands of developers, operators, and designers everyday.
Download github overview installation backwards compatibility upgrading upgrading from 1. This application then takes a subcommand such as apply or plan. Relatively recently, vagrant provided an alternative for those of us that prefer to use vmware fusion or workstation. Vagrant with ansible provisioner on windows github. For each of the definitions, packer will run the provisioner for each of the configured builds.
Terraform is only a single commandline application. Ill deploy a static website to iis on windows server 2012 to showcase this approach. The vagrant chef solo provisioner allows you to provision the guest using chef, specifically with chefsolo. During this process vagrant will download ubuntutrusty64 directly from hashicorps atlas and then provision the virtual machine as. The shell provisioner is the most basic provisioner, and allows you to upload and execute a shell script as the root user in the vm. Cleanup old version of installed boxes in vagrant night. The complete list of subcommands is in the navigation to the left. Download the halfgigabyte operating system image that you want and install it. There are three ways to ask vagrant to rebuild the vm. If nothing happens, download the github extension for visual studio and try again. You can do this with a prescript prepare, the reload plugin and a post script cleanup.
Provisions the vagrant provision runs any configured provisioners against the running vagrant managed machine. The block argument then lazily loads and returns a class that implements the vagrant. The vagrant chef client provisioner allows you to provision the guest using chef. Running vagrant up from the vagrant project directory again will redownload this basebox. This removes all downloaded boxes to they will be redownloaded on next vagrant up as needed tommy strand jun 9 15 at. Execute vagrant reload to reconfigure the vm and then we can go to the vm itself to confirm that vagrantfile changes indeed worked step 2. Please read the output to determine what went wrong. First, we will install the required tools and then we will up and run an ubuntu desktop vagrant box with vagrant commands. Note that on the new vm, vagrant is a shared directory linked with codevagranttutorial. For this demo, well use vagrant for virtual instances provisioning and salt provisioner for vagrant to automate the vertica cluster creation using saltstack. In the first part of this begginers guide to vagrant, we found out how to install vagrant and get a really basic ubuntu box up and running.
This command is a great way to quickly test any provisioners, and is especially useful for incremental development of shell scripts, chef cookbooks, or puppet modules. How to use vagrant provisioning to install a package without download. This is ideal for new users to vagrant who dont want to deal with the burden of learning an advanced system such as puppet or chef, or perhaps for users who want to use this in addition to chef or puppet to. The above shell script uses su to ensure that the setup script is executed by the vagrant user because the vagrant shell provisioner runs in a sudo environment which causes the script to be executed by the root user, and my script needs to run as the user its executed for in order to copy the.
Vagrant is a fantastic learning resource for these two technologies. The output for this command should be in the log above. Chef solo provisioning vagrant by hashicorp learn the learn how vagrant fits into the. Here are just a few of the organizations that choose vagrant to automate their development environments, in lightweight and reproducible ways. Provisioner class the provisioner class should subclass and implement vagrant. If the plugin you are installing has another entrypoint, this flag can be used to specify it. Cleaner output when downloading files in a vagrant provisioning. Note however though that if vagrant was previously managing virtual machines, they may be left in.
Running vagrant globalstatus after recreated the appropriate directories. Available vagrant plugins hashicorpvagrant wiki github. To work on the vagrantreload plugin, clone this repository out, and use. These posts explain the multiple steps of preparing the base box and then the process of converting that box to the appropriate format of your preferred hypervisor. For a better understanding of how provisioners work, lets start using a very basic. To delete the basebox run vagrant box remove centos6. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed. This is used during the vagrant startup process to create the winrm listeners.
Canceling vagrant provision doesnt clean up various shell scripts it. Creating windows base images using packer and boxstarter. Removing list of vms in vagrant cache stack overflow. After running this command, your computer should be left at a clean state, as if you never created the guest machine in the first place.
Server specified, download the proper run list for that node, and provision. At the end of the article, ive included the final vagrantfile as well as a dsc configuration script, but would recommend to read through my steps in. Hashicorp vagrant vagrant was started in 2009 and quickly became a goto tool for development environments and infrastructure automation development. How to set up a local linux environment with vagrant. In this article, ill describe an approach to provisioning using powershell desired state configuration dsc in vagrant. Vagrant provides a simple and easy to use commandline client for managing these environments, and an interpreter for the textbased definitions of what each environment looks like, called vagrantfiles. Without this option, wget defaults to the dot type. The ssh command responded with a nonzero exit status. Vagrant s autoupgrade process cannot continue in this case. Declaring windows provisioning steps in vagrant is also almost identical to declaring them for linux hosts. And i simplified my cookbook, so it just download a tar package, unpack it. Long story short, ansible does not work on a windows control machine, so you basically have to.
This key specifies the name of the provisioner to use. But by using the provisioning systems builtin to vagrant. Out of the box, both vagrant and virtualbox are available to you free of charge if you dont mind using virtualbox as the virtualization engine. The goal of vagrant is to create a single workflow to build development infrastructures that mirror production. I use vagrant for quickly bringing up test environments, development servers, etc. If you are just learning chef for the first time, you probably want to start with the chef solo provisioner. Fix, exit 1 on vagrant up if unable to reach running state.
The provisioners will be run in the order they are defined within the template. Add your own customization to vagrant boxes marks blog. After the machine has been started, it will then wait until ssh is up and running in the vm at which time the vm is ready to use. When you provision your vagrant virtual machine with chef server. Vagrant addresses this need by making it easy to create and control virtual machines. When i ran vagrant up or vagrant provision, it will hang there forever after. To work on the vagrant reload plugin, clone this repository out, and use. Using packer to create windows images blogging for logging. Each provisioner has a unique identifier which can be found on the respective documentation page of the provisioner. Once vagrant manager has detected a machine, you can bookmark it so that it will not disappear when you destroy the machine.
Provisioner definition a provisioner definition is a json object that must contain at least the type key. Vagrant is open source, which means that anyone can download it, modify it, and share it freely. What are vagrant and virtualbox and how do i use them. Executing the above command cleaned up all unused old versions of the vagrant boxes and saved me about 20 gb of space. Create linux rhelcentos base images using packer january 25, 2016 john 3 comments in a previous post i wrote about how. Script provisioner doesnt checksum if multiple inline script files, invalid results when rerunning without an expensive vagrant.