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Vagrant Box for DTaaS

There are some good vagrant boxes on vagrant website. But these boxes require too many installations that take a long time and network bandwidth. So it is efficient to create one local vagrant box for DTaaS application and reuse the same in all installations.

Installed Software

This base DTaaS vagrant box, when it is successfully created, has the following software:

  • docker
  • nodejs and yarn
  • jupyter
  • microk8s
  • containers
  • mltooling/ml-workspace:0.13.2
  • traefik2.5
  • influxdb2.4
  • grafana
  • telegraf
  • gitlab

Create the vagrant box

Publish a base virtualbox package to be used by vagrant to publish all other virtualbox packages

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#create a key pair
ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t rsa -f key -q -N ""
mv key vagrant
mv key.pub vagrant.pub

vagrant up

# let the provisioning be complete
# replace the vagrant ssh key-pair with personal one
vagrant ssh

# install the oh-my-zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
# install plugins: history, autosuggestions, 
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

# inside ~/.zshrc, modify the following line
plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions history cp tmux)

# remove the vagrant default public key - first line of 
# /home/vagrant/.ssh/authorized_keys

# exit vagrant guest machine and then
# copy own private key to vagrant private key location
cp vagrant .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

# check
vagrant ssh #should work

vagrant halt

vagrant package --base dtaas \
--info "info.json" --output dtaas.vagrant

# Add box to the vagrant cache in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes directory
vagrant box add --name dtaas ./dtaas.vagrant

# You can use this box in other vagrant boxes using
#config.vm.box = "dtaas"