packer-vagrant-centos

inspired by: https://github.com/kentaro/packer-centos-template

sudo sh build_all.sh

Packer will:

• obtain CentOS from one of the mirrors specified in base.json
• execute anaconda according to kickstart.cfg
• install a base CentOS system on top of that minimal kernel
• run provision.sh on first boot to establish a web application stack

Vagrant will:

• install VirtualBox Guest Additions plugin
• clone a VirtualBox image from the system created by Packer
• set up a private network with ip address 192.168.200.2
• forward port 80 to 8080 and port 443 to 8443

Vital features of provision.sh:

• create 'root' user with password 'vagrant'
• obtain Remi and EPEL repository database information
• install server daemons -- NFS, Apache, MySQL, Sendmail
• install PHP w/ extensions mysql gd xml mbstring mcrypt

On first boot setup.sh adds:

• iptables configuration -- granting 'outside' access to ports 80, 443 and 3306
• creation of default VirtualHost
• creation of 'vanilla' my.cnf for MySQL
• grant of MySQL user 'root' with password 'vagrant' with broadest privileges

Connectivity to VM's servers, from Host:

• add to /etc/hosts -- 192.168.200.2 local
• NFS-sync'd folder created by vagrant -- /sync
• database -- mysql -h192.168.200.2 -uroot -pvagrant

To add an additional Apache VirtualHost:

• add to /etc/hosts -- 192.168.200.2 example.local
• vhost configuration -- /sync/conf.d/example.local.conf
• vagrant ssh centos
• sudo service httpd restart

sh up_base.sh

THEN

sudo sh /etc/startup.sh