Merge pull request #2 from Dalee/updates-06-04-2017

16.04.2

.gitignore

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-/packer_cache/*
-!/packer_cache/.gitkeep
-/build/*
-!/build/.gitkeep
+vagrant.retry
+packer_cache/*
+!packer_cache/.gitkeep
+build/*
+!build/.gitkeep

README.md

@@ -1,15 +1,27 @@
-# Dalee base images
+# General purpose Web-development Vagrant box
 
-[Ubuntu box](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/Dalee/boxes/ubuntu) 
-heavily used internally for all our development processes.
+This [Ubuntu 16.04](https://atlas.hashicorp.com/Dalee/boxes/ubuntu) 
+box, which is heavily used internally.
 
-Also, you can check our cool [Ansible roles](https://galaxy.ansible.com/Dalee/). 
-They allow you to build PHP/PostgreSQL or Node.js ready-to-use environment on top 
-of Ubuntu box (there are more roles, actually).
+> Also, you can check out our [Ansible roles](https://galaxy.ansible.com/Dalee/). 
+They allow quickly build PHP or Node.js based ready-to-use environment 
+on top of this box.
 
-## Artifacts
+What included:
+ * VirtualBox Guest Additions (of course)
+ * [mailhog](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) (web-interface on :8025)
+ * [nullmail](https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer) (system-wide MTA)
+ * `en_US.UTF-8` and `ru_RU.UTF-8` locales (default: `en_US.UTF-8`)
+ * Pre-installed software: `ansible`, `mc`, `git`, etc..
+ * Filesystem optimization: `noatime`, `nodiratime`
+ * Easy add new interfaces: `source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*` already 
+    included in `/etc/network/interfaces`
+ * Grub optimizations: `quiet`, `fastboot`
+
+Removed software:
+ * `cron` — it's a dangerous idea have working cron in development vm
+ * `syslog` — just use `journalctl`
 
-https://atlas.hashicorp.com/Dalee/
 
 ## DIY
 
@@ -22,24 +34,18 @@ In case you want to build boxes yourself.
  * Packer >= 0.11.0, https://www.packer.io/
 
 ### How to build
-Use `packer` to build images:
-
- * Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS (deprecated, Ansible role support dropped)
- * Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
- * Alpine Linux 3.4.6
+Use `packer` to build image:
 
 ```bash
-packer build ./ubuntu14.json
 packer build ./ubuntu16.json
-packer build ./alpine346.json
 ```
 
 Start any build process and take a rest, depending on your system,
 build will finish in ~20-30 minutes.
 
 ### Self-hosted boxes
 
-Do not want to upload boxes to Atlas? Here is the solution:
+Do not want to upload box to Atlas? Here is the solution:
 
 Check out `example/example-metadata.json` and `example/example-vagrantfile` for self-hosted boxes.
 
@@ -48,14 +54,6 @@ To calculate correct sha1 signature for a box, use:
 openssl sha1 ./build/*.box
 ```
 
-## Notes about Alpine Box
-
-Alpine box has built-in VirtualBox Guest Additions, but, 
-Vagrant itself lacks of support Alpine configuration (like ethernet configuration).
-
-There is a [Alpine plugin](https://github.com/maier/vagrant-alpine) for Vagrant,
-but there are some NFS mounts problems with undefined root cause.
-
 ## License
 
 Code is unlicensed. Do whatever you want with it. [Set Your Code Free](http://unlicense.org/).

Vagrantfile

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Vagrant.require_version ">= 1.8.0"
+Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
+
+    project_name = "baseimage"
+    project_root = "/home/web/project"
+
+    config.vm.box = "Dalee/ubuntu"
+    config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
+        v.memory = 512
+        v.cpus = 1
+        v.gui = true
+    end
+
+    config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"
+    config.vm.synced_folder ".", project_root, type: "nfs"
+end

example/example-metadata.json

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
         "version": "201525120051",
         "providers": [{
                 "name": "virtualbox",
-                "url": "file:///Users/arkady/Projects/dalee/build.vagrant/build/dalee-ubuntu.box",
+                "url": "file:///path/to/git/repo//build/dalee-ubuntu.box",
                 "checksum_type": "sha1",
-                "checksum": "6e18f2396339c2d07632f27f16061d4bdc4224b8"
+                "checksum": "<insert sha1 here>"
         }]
     }]
 }

example/example-vagrantfile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Vagrant.require_version ">= 1.8.0"
 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
 
     config.vm.box = "dalee/ubuntu"
-    config.vm.box_url = "file:///Users/arkady/Projects/dalee/build.vagrant/build/dalee-ubuntu.json"
+    config.vm.box_url = "file:///path/to/git/repo/build/dalee-ubuntu.json"
     config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
         v.memory = 512
         v.cpus = 1