I’ve been using Vagrant for a while now (though I’m not a Vagrant expert at all) and I’ve found myself setting some configuration over and over again as well performing some tasks on every new virtual machine the very same way I’d do on a physical one.
Things I like to set on a new vagrant-created vm:
- have virtualboc guest extensions installed by default, but disable update-on-creation (it slows down machine startup considerably)
- set a host-only network interface in the private network section of the Vagrant file
- install screen
- load my ssh public key for user vagrant
- load my ssh public key for user root
I was thinking that there should be a better way to do all this, and provisioning certainly comes to my mind.
However, I just wanted all of the above stuff to be, basically, the default.
While reading the f… abulous manual, I discovered that Vagrantfiles has some sort of incremental way of loading settings, that is: the settings you define in your Vagrant file will not just be applied to a blank set of settings (pun not intended). Quite the contrary: such settings will be applied on top of defaults you can factor out and put in special places. One of such special places is the ~/.vagrant.d.
Thus, I now have in my ~/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "centos/7"
config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"
config.vbguest.auto_update = false
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "2048"
end
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: %q{
if [ -e /var/log/provisioned ] ; then
echo "inline provisioning script ran already, skipping."
exit
fi
echo "Updating yum cache ... "
sudo yum makecache
echo "Installing gnu screen ..."
sudo yum install -y screen
echo "Installing GNU/Emacs (no X) ... "
#sudo yum install -y emacs-nox
echo "Loading public key for user vagrant..."
echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAB.... VSkr1CtJZGf myuser@mymac" >> ~vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
echo "Loading public key for user `whoami`..."
sudo mkdir -p ~/.ssh
echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAB.... VSkr1CtJZGf myuser@mymac" >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
touch /var/log/provisioned
}
end
Such code allows me to do some nice things:
- set the default memory for a new vm to 2GB
- disable virtualbox guest additions auto update
- create a private network interface, with a dynamic address
- if the box is based on the “centos/7” image:
- update the yum cache
- install screen
- install emacs-nox
- load my ssh key for both users vagrants and root
- show the network connection information
Only thing: I am assuming a centos-based box, because that’s what I use the most.
Znpy 