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Creating a Vagrant Box
Although a number of base Vagrant boxes are available on the Vagrant box repository, there may be times where we need to create our own virtual machine image that Vagrant can use to provision new environments. And while some of this configuration is provider-specific, there are still a number of tasks that all base boxes require in order to work with Vagrant out of the box.
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Table of Contents
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Challenge
Install Needed Packages
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Switch to root:
sudo -i
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Install the
linux-headers
package for the appropriate release,build-essential
anddkms
. Note: Please wait several minutes for the dpkg lock to release if you have trouble installing the software.:apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms -y
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Challenge
Configure Vagrant Users
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Create a new
vagrant
user:useradd vagrant -m -G sudo -s /bin/bash
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Set the default password for both
vagrant
androot
users tovagrant
:passwd vagrant passwd root
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Ensure the
vagrant
user can use passwordlesssudo
:visudo vagrant ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Save and exit
visudo
.
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Challenge
Add the Vagrant Public Key
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Switch to the
vagrant
user:su - vagrant
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Create an
.ssh
directory:mkdir .ssh
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Pull down the public key and add it to the
authorized_keys
file:wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hashicorp/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub mv vagrant.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
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Set the permissions for the new directory and file:
sudo chmod 700 .ssh sudo chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
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