vagrant
Vagrant Project :
BOX : generic/rhel8 4.2.14
PROVIDERS :
- virtualbox
- vmware
- custom
Vagrant Synced Folders used to share Ansible playbooks provisioned via ‘ansible_local’
Environment
- Windows 10 Home Edition
- Windows Services for Linux 2 1.1.3.0
- Oracle Linux 8.5
$echo "alias 'vagrant=/mnt/c/HashiCorp/Vagrant/bin/vagrant.exe'" >> ~/.bashrc - Vagrant Windows AMD64 2.3.4
- Vagrant VMware Utility Binary Download for Windows X86_64 1.0.21
- VMware Workstation 16 Player 16.2.5
- Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 7.0.6
Tools
$getips <provider>
$getprivkeys <provider>
Harvest the private keys and sow them converted ready for use by PuTTY which is much more conventient/speedy than using vagrant ssh
Links
Accidentally included secrets in your source code?
RHN Secrets
$cat .secrets.rb
Vagrant Add Box
$python3 -m http.server 8000 &
Add the BOX locally
$cd /mnt/d/Virtual_Machines/GOLD
$vagrant box add --name pauliopolis/rhel8 gold-virtualbox-rhel8.box
This method won’t allow you to specify a version so use a metadata.json instead
$vagrant box add metadata-file.json
or
$python3 -m http.server 8000 &
$vagrant box add metadata-http.json
Alternatively - upload the BOX to Vagrant Cloud
$vagrant box add pauliopolis/rhel8
Vagrant Usage
cd vagrant/custom
virtualbox & vmware project Vagrantfiles differ and remain works in progress currently
$vagrant up
$vagrant provision --provision-with update,certs,vga,cleanup
$vagrant reload In order to boot with the previously updated kernel & VBox Guest Additions
Examples
$vagrant up
Close and re-open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager to see RAM Usage (indicating Guest Additions)
Guest still shows Packer hostname at this stage even though hostname has been set only because it has not yet been rebooted or logged into.
$vagrant provision --provision-with update,certs,vga,cleanup
$vagrant reload
Close and re-open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager to see RAM Usage (indicating Guest Additions) - Observe new kernel version
