vagrant-lxc base boxes

This repository contains a set of scripts for creating base boxes for usage with vagrant-lxc 1.0+.

What distros / versions can I build with this?

Ubuntu
- Precise 12.04 x86_64
- Quantal 12.10 x86_64
- Raring 13.04 x86_64
- Saucy 13.10 x86_64
- Trusty 14.04 x86_64
- Utopic 14.10 x86_64
- Vivid 15.04 x86_64
- Wily 15.10 x86_64
- Xenial 16.04 x86_64
Debian
- Squeeze x86_64
- Wheezy x86_64
- Jessie x86_64
- Sid x86_64
Fedora
- 19 x86_64
- 20 x86_64
- 21 x86_64
- 22 x86_64
- 23 x86_64
- rawhide x86_64
CentOS
- 6 x86_64

Building the boxes

In order to build the boxes you need to have the lxc-download template available on your machine. If you don't have one around please create one based on this and drop it on your lxc templates path (usually /usr/share/lxc/templates).

git clone https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes.git
cd vagrant-lxc-base-boxes
make precise

By default no provisioning tools will be included but you can pick the ones you want by providing some environmental variables. For example:

ANSIBLE=1 PUPPET=1 CHEF=1 SALT=1 BABUSHKA=1 \
make precise

Will build a Ubuntu Precise x86_64 box with latest Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt and Babushka pre-installed.

When using ANSIBLE=1, an optional ANSIBLE_VERSION parameter may be passed that will specify which version of ansible to install. By default it will install the latest Ansible.

ADDPACKAGES="aptitude htop" \
make trusty

Will build a Ubuntu Trusty x86_64 box with aptitude and htop as additional packages pre-installed. You can also specify the packages in a file trusty_packages.

Pre built base boxes

NOTE: None of the base boxes below have a provisioner pre-installed

Distribution	VagrantCloud box
Ubuntu Precise 12.04 x86_64	fgrehm/precise64-lxc
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 x86_64	fgrehm/trusty64-lxc
Debian Wheezy 7 x86_64	fgrehm/wheezy64-lxc
Debian Jessie 8 x86_64	glenux/jessie64-lxc
CentOS 6 x86_64	fgrehm/centos-6-64-lxc

What makes up for a vagrant-lxc base box?

See vagrant-lxc/BOXES.md

Known issues

We can't get the NFS client to be installed on the containers used for building Ubuntu 13.04 / 13.10 / 14.04 base boxes.
Puppet can't be installed on Debian Sid
Salt can't be installed on Ubuntu 13.04

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