Packer - CentOS 7.5 Vagrant Box With GNOME Desktop

Current CentOS Version Used: 7.5 (1804)

Pre-built Vagrant Box:

• vagrant init nitindas/centos-7.5

This example build configuration installs and configures CentOS 7.5 x86_64.

Requirements

The following software must be installed/present on your local machine before you can use Packer to build the Vagrant box file:

• Packer
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox (if you want to build the VirtualBox box)

Usage

Make sure all the required software (listed above) is installed, then cd to the directory containing this README.md file, and run:

$ centos7.5-packer-build.sh <VagrantCloud User/login> <VagrantCloud Password>

After a few minutes, Packer should tell you the box was generated successfully, and the box was uploaded to Vagrant Cloud.

Note: This configuration includes a post-processor that pushes the built box to Vagrant Cloud (which requires a VAGRANT_CLOUD_TOKEN environment variable to be set); remove the vagrant-cloud post-processor from the Packer template to build the box locally and not push it to Vagrant Cloud. You don't need to specify a version variable either, if not using the vagrant-cloud post-processor.

Testing built boxes

There's an included Vagrantfile that allows quick testing of the built Vagrant boxes. From VagrantFile-Example/ directory, run one the following command after building the box:

$ cd VagrantFile-Example/
$ vagrant up

License

MIT license.