An end to end configuration of:
- VMware and VirtualBox for running virtual machines
- Packer for provisioning base operating system onto those virtual machines
- Vagrant for provisioning Packer built instances into a development environment
- Puppet and Chef for provisioning the application platform within that environment
- and more to come to build code, deploy, run tests, etc...
You'll need to download either VMWare or VirtualBox to get started (you can try running both but don't complain if things get messy).
You'll need to download and install Packer to build the virtual machine images.
You'll need to download and install Vagrant to provision the systems.
Depending on which virtual machine you're using, you'll need to run something like the following (possibly replacing vmware-iso with virtualbox-iso).
packer build --only=vmware-iso fedora-20-x86_64.json
Don't hold your breath, it'll take a while to download the relevant ISO's, do the installation and compress the VM image. The output should look something like the following (which has had a lot of noise removed):
vmware-iso output will be in this color.
==> vmware-iso: Downloading or copying ISO
vmware-iso: Downloading or copying: http://mirror.optus.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-netinst.iso
==> vmware-iso: Creating virtual machine disk
==> vmware-iso: Building and writing VMX file
==> vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server on port 8198
==> vmware-iso: Starting virtual machine...
==> vmware-iso: Waiting 15s for boot...
==> vmware-iso: Connecting to VM via VNC
==> vmware-iso: Typing the boot command over VNC...
==> vmware-iso: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> vmware-iso: Connected to SSH!
==> vmware-iso: Uploading the 'linux' VMware Tools
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/01_update.sh
vmware-iso: Running yum update
...
vmware-iso: Sleeping to prevent packer from running the next script
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/20_udev.sh
vmware-iso: Removing HWADDR lines under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
...
vmware-iso: Checking for HWADDR in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/21_sshd.sh
vmware-iso: Forcing UseDNS in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/40_vmtools.sh
vmware-iso: Installing virtual machine tools for vmware-iso
...
vmware-iso: Cleaning up /home/vagrant/linux.iso and /tmp/vmware
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/60_vagrant.sh
vmware-iso: Creating ~vagrant/.ssh
...
vmware-iso: Setting ~vagrant/.ssh permissions and ownership
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/61_chef.sh
vmware-iso: Installing chef from https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh
...
vmware-iso: Thank you for installing Chef!
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/62_puppet.sh
vmware-iso: Adding puppet repository from https://yum.puppetlabs.com/fedora/f20/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-20-1.noarch.rpm
...
vmware-iso: Complete!
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/98_cleanup.sh
vmware-iso: Running yum clean
...
vmware-iso: Clearing out /tmp and /var
==> vmware-iso: Provisioning with shell script: script/99_zero.sh
vmware-iso: Zeroing free space on the root file system
...
vmware-iso: Syncing disks
==> vmware-iso: Gracefully halting virtual machine...
vmware-iso: Waiting for VMware to clean up after itself...
==> vmware-iso: Deleting unnecessary VMware files...
vmware-iso: Deleting: output-vmware-iso/564df148-71c0-1fe2-f34c-0b23ff0fa1d6.vmem
...
vmware-iso: Deleting: output-vmware-iso/vmware.log
==> vmware-iso: Cleaning VMX prior to finishing up...
vmware-iso: Detaching ISO from CD-ROM device...
==> vmware-iso: Compacting the disk image
==> vmware-iso: Running post-processor: vagrant
==> vmware-iso (vagrant): Creating Vagrant box for 'vmware' provider
vmware-iso (vagrant): Copying: output-vmware-iso/fedora-20-x86_64-s001.vmdk
...
vmware-iso (vagrant): Compressing: startMenu.plist
Build 'vmware-iso' finished.
==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
--> vmware-iso: VM files in directory: output-vmware-iso
--> vmware-iso: 'vmware' provider box: ../../boxes/vmware/fedora-20-x86_64.box
At this point, you should have a .box image which you can boot Vagrant from:
$ ls -l ../../boxes/vmware/
total 2026440
-rw-r--r-- 1 martin staff 0 13 Feb 13:11 empty.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 martin staff 551650917 14 Feb 14:08 fedora-20-x86_64.box
Which you can then use with Vagrant (again, replacing vmware_fusion with virtualbox as necessary):
$ cd ../../vagrant/puppet/fedora
$ vagrant up --provider vmware_fusion
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'vmware_fusion' provider...
[default] Cloning VMware VM: 'fedora-20-x86_64'. This can take some time...
[default] Verifying vmnet devices are healthy...
[default] Preparing network adapters...
[default] Starting the VMware VM...
[default] Waiting for the VM to finish booting...
[default] The machine is booted and ready!
[default] Forwarding ports...
[default] -- 22 => 2222
[default] Configuring network adapters within the VM...
[default] Waiting for HGFS kernel module to load...
[default] Enabling and configuring shared folders...
[default] -- /Users/martin/Projects/Packer/vagrant/fedora: /vagrant
$ vagrant ssh
Last login: Thu Feb 13 22:33:46 2014 from 192.168.2.1
[vagrant@fedora-vagrant ~]$ whoami
vagrant
[vagrant@fedora-vagrant ~]$ hostname
fedora-vagrant.local
[vagrant@fedora-vagrant ~]$ exit
logout
Connection to 192.168.2.137 closed.
$ vagrant destroy
Are you sure you want to destroy the 'default' VM? [y/N] y
[default] Stopping the VMware VM...
[default] Deleting the VM...