vagrant + yaml setup

Requirements

1. Install virtualbox
2. Install vagrant
3. Install vagrant-cachier vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier

This is a nice to have, it helps speed up the provisioning process if you're constantly destroying and recreating VMs

4. Install vagrant-hosts vagrant plugin install vagrant-hosts

This provides a very simple poor man's DNS for your vagrant environment. VERY helpful for puppet.

Quick start

1. Edit the machines.yaml file
2. Add a name
3. Specify a box
4. Specify amount of RAM
5. Specify number of vCPUs
6. vagrant up eg.

---
- name: "default"
  box: "centos/7"
  nic:
  #  - {type: "", ip: ""}
  port:
  #  - {guest: "80", host: "8080"}
  #  - {guest: "443", host: "4443"}
  ram: 1024
  cpu: 1

Customising NICs

1. Specify a type eg. Private Network, Public Network
2. Specify IP. eg.

---
- name: ""
  box: "centos/7"
  nic:
    - {type: "Private Network", ip: "192.168.1.10"}
  port:
  #  - {guest: "80", host: "8080"}
  #  - {guest: "443", host: "4443"}
  ram:  
  cpu:

Port Forwarding

1. Provide a hash of the guest port and the host port.

eg.

---
- name: ""
  box: "centos/7"
  nic:
  #  - {type: "", ip: ""}
  port:
    - {guest: "80", host: "8080"}
    - {guest: "443", host: "4443"}
  ram:  
  cpu:

Sudo

By design and default the vagrant user has sudo access without requiring a password.

Quick start

1. Pull the Puppet module dependencies

This will pull all of the Puppet modules required.

git submodule update --init --recursive 2. Start the virtual machine

This will create the virtual machine and run the initial provisioning including the internal network.

vagrant up 3. Re puppet the virtual machine

We need to re-apply the Puppet after the initial run now that the internal networks are sorted properly.

vagrant provision --provision-with puppet 4. Implement SSH workaround for Windows

Unfortunately vagrant ssh doesn't work on Windows. There is a simple workaround.

vagrant ssh-config > config

Now we can SSH into a virtual machine using:

ssh -F config <virtual machine name>

Supported providers

Currently only supports virtualbox because I am lazy. With a little effort all other supported providers will work.