As promised let’s chat about the tools we at Coral now use in our development process. The first tool is for easy VM creation.
Veewee is a tool for easily (and repeatedly) building custom Vagrant base boxes, KVMs, and virtual machine images.
With Veewee I demo to my team how to create a VM from the OS ISO in just a few minutes.
Veewee isn’t only for Vagrant. It currently supports exporting VM images for the following providers:
- VirtualBox – exports to
OVFfiletype - VMware (Fusion) – exports to
OVAfiletype - KVM – exports to
IMGfiletype
Check Veewee on GitHub
A sample of the settings available to tuned your VMs are:
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Veewee::Session.declare({ :cpu_count => '2', :memory_size=> '2048', :disk_size => '256000', :disk_format => 'VDI', :hostiocache => 'off', :os_type_id => 'RedHat6_64', :iso_file => "CentOS-6.5-x86_64-minimal.iso", :iso_src => "http://yum.singlehop.com/CentOS/6.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.5-x86_64-minimal.iso", :iso_md5 => "0d9dc37b5dd4befa1c440d2174e88a87", :iso_download_timeout => 1000, :boot_wait => "10", :boot_cmd_sequence => [ ' text ks=http://%IP%:%PORT%/ks.cfg' ], :kickstart_port => "7122", :kickstart_timeout => 10000, :kickstart_file => "ks.cfg", :ssh_login_timeout => "10000", :ssh_user => "veewee", :ssh_password => "veewee", :ssh_key => "", :ssh_host_port => "7222", :ssh_guest_port => "22", :sudo_cmd => "echo '%p'|sudo -S sh '%f'", :shutdown_cmd => "/sbin/halt -h -p", :postinstall_files => [ "base.sh", "vmwaretools.sh", "dynmotd", "coral.sh", "cleanup.sh", "zerodisk.sh" ], :postinstall_timeout => 10000 }) |
Post-Install files and scripts
If some degree of personalization and optimization of the VMs is required you can do so calling scripts.
The outcome is a VM image ready to use in Vagrant, can be imported in VMware Fusion and/or ESXi
Will leave Chef and Deployment for another day.
Stay tuned!
