= Xenial Base Vagrant Box Setup =

[[V2Master]] | [[V2Deployment]] | [[V2VagrantBoxSetup]]

  <<TableOfContents>>

= Introduction =

We create a Vagrant box for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, based on the official Ubuntu cloud image. Currently our base box is the same as the cloud image, but
 * Disk size is increased to 40GB from 10GB.
 * !GuestAdditions updated to version 5.1.18
 * Basic users and passwords set
 * Minimal puppet client installed

== Get base box and add as vagrant box to the system ==

 {{{
vagrant@zg-2: vagrant box add https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant.box --name=xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant
}}}

== Create a new virtual machine based on the base box and start it ==

 {{{
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms$ mkdir xenial-base
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms$ cd xenial-base
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vi Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant"
  config.vm.hostname = "xenial-base.softxs.ch"
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name",   "xenial-base"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "8192"]
  end
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "172.16.1.100", netmask: "255.240.0.0"
end
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vagrant up
}}}

== Updating VirtualBox Guest Additions ==

 {{{
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vagrant ssh
ubuntu@xenial-base:~$ sudo su -
root@xenial-base:~# cd /tmp
root@xenial-base:~# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.18/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.18.iso
root@xenial-base:~# mount -o loop /tmp/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.18.iso /mnt
root@xenial-base:~# apt-get remove virtualbox-guest-utils
root@xenial-base:~# apt-get install make gcc perl linux-headers-$(uname -r)
root@xenial-base:~# /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
root@xenial-base:~# umount /mnt
root@xenial-base:~# rm /tmp/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.1.18.iso
}}}

== Set Users and Passords ==

 Set root password and vagrant user
 {{{
root@xenial-base:~# passwd
root@xenial-base:~# adduser vagrant
# add vagrant to all groups, where ubuntu is a member (with the exeption of the ubuntu group)
root@xenial-base:~# vi /etc/group
:%s/ubuntu$/ubuntu,vagrant/
:x
# add vagrant as sudoer without password
root@xenial-base:~# cat >> /etc/sudoers.d/90-cloud-init-users
vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
CTRL-D
# Set auth key for vagrant user (copied from user ubuntu)
root@xenial-base:~# mkdir ~vagrant/.ssh
root@xenial-base:~# cp ~ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys ~vagrant/.ssh
root@xenial-base:~# chown -R vagrant:vagrant ~vagrant/.ssh
root@xenial-base:~# chmod 755 ~vagrant/.ssh
root@xenial-base:~# chmod 600 ~vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys
root@xenial-base:~# exit
ubuntu@xenial-base:~$ exit
}}}

== Resize HDD ==

 {{{
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vagrant halt
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ cd ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/xenial-base
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ VBoxManage clonehd ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg.vmdk clone-disk1.vdi --format vdi
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ VBoxManage showhdinfo clone-disk1.vdi
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ VBoxManage modifyhd clone-disk1.vdi --resize 40960
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ vboxmanage list hdds
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ VBoxManage storageattach xenial-base --storagectl SCSI --medium none --type hdd --port 0
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ vboxmanage closemedium disk ce7c94a3-7b50-4ab8-b7b1-74eb852dd094 --delete
vagrant@zg-2:~/VirtualBox VMs/xenial-base$ VBoxManage storageattach xenial-base --storagectl SCSI --medium clone-disk1.vdi --type hdd --port 0
}}}

== Minimal puppet client setup ==

 {{{
vagrant@xenial-rails:~$ sudo su -
root@xenial-rails:~# apt install puppet-common
root@xenial-rails:~# cd /etc/puppet
root@xenial-rails:~# rm -rf [efmt]*
root@xenial-rails:~# vi puppet.conf
[agent]
  server      = puppet
  report      = true
}}}

== Repackaging the VM into a new Vagrant box ==

 {{{
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vagrant package --output ~/boxes/xenial-base.box
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-base$ vagrant box add xenial-base ~/boxes/xenial-base.box
}}}