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Chemical-Analytics-Platform Virtual Machine

Scripts to create a Vagrant box using packer and ansible.

For available software inside Virtual machine see https://github.com/NLeSC/Chemical-Analytics-Platform/wiki

Usage

Requirements:

• VirtualBox, https://www.virtualbox.org
• Vagrant, https://www.vagrantup.com

Start virtual machine with

vagrant init nlesc/chemical-analytics-platform
vagrant up

Build

Requirements:

• VirtualBox, https://www.virtualbox.org/
• Vagrant, https://www.vagrantup.com/
• Packer, https://packer.io
• Enough disk space (15Gb)
  • Make sure temporary directory (/tmp by default on Linux) has enough space. Use TMPDIR environment variable to overwrite default location

packer build -force packer.json

The build will produce 2 files:

• packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box, Vagrant box, ca be used as base for a Vagrant virtual machine
• output-virtualbox-iso/cap.ova, Open Virtualization Format Archive, can be imported into VirtualBox as a virtual machine

Test

Add box to Vagrant with

vagrant box remove --force --all nlesc/chemical-analytics-platform
vagrant box add --name nlesc/chemical-analytics-platform packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box

Then use steps described at Usage chapter in a new directory.

Push

Requirements:

• Atlas account, https://atlas.hashicorp.com

Publish box on https://atlas.hashicorp.com/nlesc/boxes/chemical-analytics-platform using the following steps:

1. Create a new version
2. Create a new provider
3. Choose virtualbox as provider
4. Choose Upload
5. Press Continue to upload
6. Upload the packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box file generated by vagrant package
7. Edit version
8. Press Release version

Extending

The ova file produced during build can be used as as starting point in a another packer image build project using the 'virtualbox-ovf' packer builder.

To give another project also self upgrade capabilities add it's upgrade script to /etc/vagrant_upgrade.d directory.