packer-bionic64

Description

Create a Vagrant ubuntu lts box via Packer

Pre-requirements

• Packer
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

How to use this repo

• Clone
• Build
• Vagrant usage
• Publish
• Consume

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Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/viv-garot/packer-bionic64

Change directory

cd packer-bionic64

Build the box with Packer

packer build bionic64.json

How to use the box with Vagrant

Add the box to Vagrant

vagrant box add --name bionic64 bionic64-vbox.box

Initialize the box to create a VagrantFile

vagrant init -m bionic64

Start the box

vagrant up

Access the box

vagrant ssh

or

ssh vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p 2222 

(password = vagrant) (port 2222 is hardcoded in bionic64.json)

Destroy the box

vagrant destroy

Remove the box

vagrant box remove bionic64

Publish to Vagrant Cloud

Login to Vagrant Cloud

vagrant cloud auth login

Note : If you have Two-Factor authentication enabled the login will fail with the bellow error

 - Two-factor authentication is enabled! Vagrant Cloud does not support creating (VagrantCloud::Error::ClientError::RequestError)
access tokens via the API when the user has two-factor authentication
enabled. Please create an access token using the Vagrant Cloud website and store
the result in the 'ATLAS_TOKEN' environment variable.

- Create a token on Vagrant Cloud if not performed already

- And export the result in the 'ATLAS_TOKEN' environment variable

export ATLAS_TOKEN=<generated-token>

- Then try again to login

vagrant cloud auth login

Create the box in Vagrant Cloud

vagrant cloud box create <user>/<box> --no-private

e.g.

vagrant cloud box create vivien/bionic64 --no-private

Publish the box to Vagrant Cloud

vagrant cloud publish --box-version `date +%y.%m.%d` \
  --force --no-private --release <user>/<box>   \
  `date +%y.%m.%d` virtualbox bionic64-vbox.box

e.g.

vagrant cloud publish --box-version `date +%y.%m.%d` \
  --force --no-private --release vivien/bionic64   \
  `date +%y.%m.%d` virtualbox bionic64-vbox.box

Consume the box from the Vagrant Cloud

Create a sub directory

mkdir myboxes

Change directory

cd myboxes

Initialize the box to create a VagrantFile

vagrant init -m <user>/<box>

e.g.

vagrant init -m vivien/bionic64

Start the box

vagrant up