Vagrant on The Comfy Seat

Vagrant, Fusion, & DHCP Oddities

Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had some random weirdness that I thought was related to Vagrant’s VMware Fusion provider until I turned on debugging tonight. As it turns out, Fusion had decided at some point in the past to start storing it’s DHCP leases in vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.leases~ instead of vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.leases. The same was true for vmnet1 too. After quitting Fusion and running ‘sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli –stop’ I removed vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet* so that all the leases would be reset. After that I reran ‘vagrant up’ and (finally) things worked as expected.

Configuration Management Part 3: Vagrant & Packer

Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

To facilitate developing my Puppet code, the Pro Puppet book suggests using Vagrant. Seeing as I’ve been meaning to get around to learning it for a while I decided now was the time to finally do so. The only problem is that, being a responsibly paranoid SysAdmin, I was never a fan of using a base for my work that I didn’t know the contents of. I also never liked the idea of basing my work off of something I didn’t understand (a Vagrant box) or that could go away at anytime.

Vagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two big questions: where can I get “boxes” from and how can I easily make my own? After a little Googling I discovered that Puppet Labs provides a small library of the boxes they use internally. On their page I also found the answer to my second question of how to make my own: Veewee. It seems I have a bit of setup to do before I can start using Veewee but I think it will be worth it. My plan is to bring up a base CentOS 6.4 x86_64 box and then make a Vagrantfile that uses Puppet to configure it for building RPM’s in. Ideally, I will start including this Vagrantfile with the source of any RPM I publish so that building a new one is easy-peasy.