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
  • Stretch 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
  • 7 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.

Additional packages to be installed can be specified with the ADDPACKAGES variable:

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.

Note: ADDPACKAGES is currently only implemented for flavors of debian.

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