Current CentOS Version Used: 7.4 (1708)

Pre-built Vagrant Box:

• vagrant init geerlingguy/centos7
• See older versions: https://files.midwesternmac.com/

This example build configuration installs and configures CentOS 7 x86_64 minimal using Ansible, and then generates two Vagrant box files, for:

• VirtualBox
• VMware

The example can be modified to use more Ansible roles, plays, and included playbooks to fully configure (or partially) configure a box file suitable for deployment for development environments.

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)
• VMware Fusion (or Workstation - if you want to build the VMware box)
• Ansible

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

$ packer build centos7.json

After a few minutes, Packer should tell you the box was generated successfully.

If you want to only build a box for one of the supported virtualization platforms (e.g. only build the VMware box), add --only=vmware-iso to the packer build command:

$ packer build --only=vmware-iso centos7.json

$ packer build --only=virtualbox-iso centos7.json

There's an included Vagrantfile that allows quick testing of the built Vagrant boxes. From this same directory, run one of the following commands after building the boxes:

# For VMware Fusion:
$ vagrant up vmware --provider=vmware_fusion

# For VirtualBox:
$ vagrant up virtualbox --provider=virtualbox

MIT license.

Created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.