Vagrant provider for VMware vCloud Air®

Version 0.5.0 doesn't work with Vagrant 1.6.5+, please upgrade to v0.5.1 (see upgrade instructions below)

We have a wide array of boxes available at Vagrant Cloud you can use them directly or you can roll your own as you please, make sure to install VMware tools in it.

This plugin supports the universal vmware_ovf box format, that is 100% portable between vagrant-vcloud, vagrant-vcenter and vagrant-vcloudair, no more double boxes!.

If you're unsure about what are the correct network settings for your Vagrantfile make sure to check out the Network Deployment Options wiki page.

Check the full releases changelog here

Install

Latest version can be easily installed by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vcloudair

Vagrant will download all the required gems during the installation process.

After the install has completed a vagrant up --provider=vcloudair will trigger the newly installed provider.

Upgrade

If you already have vagrant-vcloudair installed you can update to the latest version available by issuing:

vagrant plugin update vagrant-vcloudair

Vagrant will take care of the upgrade process.

Configuration

Here's a sample Vagrantfile that builds a docker host on vCloud Air and starts a Wordpress container on port 80, make sure you replace the placeholders with your own values.

# Set our default provider for this Vagrantfile to 'vcloudair'
ENV['VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER'] = 'vcloudair'

nodes = [
  { hostname: 'vagrant-test1', box: 'gosddc/trusty64' },
]

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|

  # vCloud Air provider settings
  config.vm.provider :vcloudair do |vcloudair|

    vcloudair.username = '<username@domain>'
    vcloudair.password = '<password>'

    # if you're using a vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud, put the cloud id here, if
    # you're using a Virtual Private Cloud, skip this parameter.
    vcloudair.cloud_id = '<dedicated cloud id>'
    vcloudair.vdc_name = '<vdc name>'

    # Set the network to deploy our VM on
    vcloudair.vdc_network_name = '<vdc network name>'

    # Set our Edge Gateway and the public IP we're going to use.
    vcloudair.vdc_edge_gateway = '<vdc edge gateway>'
    vcloudair.vdc_edge_gateway_ip = '<vdc edge gateway public ip>'

    # Catalog that holds our templates.
    vcloudair.catalog_name = 'Vagrant'

    # Set our Memory and CPU to a sensible value for Docker.
    vcloudair.memory = 2048
    vcloudair.cpus = 2
  end

  # Go through nodes and configure each of them.
  nodes.each do |node|
    config.vm.define node[:hostname] do |node_config|
        # Set the box we're using
      node_config.vm.box = node[:box]
      # Set the hostname for the box
      node_config.vm.hostname = node[:hostname]
      # Fix a customization problem on Ubuntu and vCloud Air.
      node_config.vm.provision 'shell', inline: 'echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> tmp; sudo mv tmp /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base; sudo resolvconf -u'
      # Fetch and run Docker and the 'tutum/wordpress' container.
      node_config.vm.provision 'docker' do |d|
        d.run 'tutum/wordpress', cmd: '/run.sh', args: '-p 80:80'
      end
      # Declare NFS non functional as our plugin doesn't provide for it.
      node_config.nfs.functional = false
    end
  end

end

For additional documentation on different network setups with vCloud Director, check the Network Deployment Options Wiki page

Contribute

What is still missing:

• TEST SUITES! (working on that).
• Permission checks, make sure you have at least Catalog Admin privileges if you want to upload boxes to vCloud.
• Some spaghetti code here and there.