Re: [atomic-devel] [Proposal] Move atomicapp Vagrant box git repo under Project Atomic

[James <purpleidea gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:17 PM, James <purpleidea gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015, at 05:53 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/LalatenduMohanty/centos7-container-app-vagrant-box
>>
>> I don't object exactly, but at some point we're really going to have to invest in
>> de-duplicating Vagrant work.
>>
>> See:
>> https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2015-April/msg00027.html
>> and
>> https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2015-April/msg00047.html
>>
>> This most closely overlaps
>> https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-atomic-developer-bundle/
>>
>> The kickstart file has a lot of overlap with (but is not exactly the same as) the
>> Vagrant boxes for Fedora 22 (both Base and Atomic), which are configured here:
>> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/
>>
>> Your kickstart configuration could probably be fairly easily written as a Vagrant
>> provisioner on top of either the Cloud Base or Atomic - or on top of OMV.
>
> I too agree with Colin. If someone wants to make a custom spin of a
> box, my vagrant-builder tool does exactly that.
> You can use any of the existing Fedora produced base images as a base.

I'm even happy to screenshare with whoever is behind building this,
and hack out whatever changes they want in the image in 15 min or so.
Both doing it, and showing them how it's done.

The offer is open if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
James


>
> I've been down the roads to/from vagrant for many years now. It would
> be my recommendation to build on existing work I've done, or to have
> good reasons why not to. I'd rather throw out my work than to
> constantly see people re-invent where it's not needed.
>
> Cheers,
> James