RancherOS. A simplified Linux distribution built from containers, for containers.

• RancherOS Vagrant Box
• Python included for Ansible
• Alpine as default console
• Bash as deafult shell
• without VirtualBox Guest Additions

The RancherOS Vagrant Box should be easy to keep up to date with new RancherOS releases. If you do not see the latest release on Vagrant Cloud, just build your own by following the steps below.

The default SSH Key has been set up for vagrant ssh to allow customizing via the the shell script provisioner.

This box does not include VirtualBox Guest Additions. The initial Vagrant box by RancherOS included a plugin which is used here: vagrant_rancheros_guest_plugin.rb. The box works fine without this plugin, thus I did not activate it. Additionally the vagrant-alpine guest plugin might be helpful, when using the Alpine console, but is not required: vagrant plugin install vagrant-alpine. (Neither of these plugins currently work to enable setting config.vm.hostname or config.vm.network on RancherOS).

git clone https://github.com/chriswayg/rancheros-box.git
cd rancheros-box

• Customize RancherOS-common with your Vagrant Cloud box name and token and adapt the RancherOS description as needed.
• Create a new box on Vagrant Cloud and choose the box name as set in RancherOS-common
• Possibly create a new file such as RancherOS-1.4.0 with the latest version number and md5 hash based on info from:
  • rancher/os releases iso-checksums.txt
• Launch the build script with the applicable version number:

./build.sh 1.3.0

If you put a non-existant Vagrant Cloud box name (for example vagrantcloud_box_name="LOCAL") in RancherOS-common the build will intentionally fail on the post-processor. If it didn't, it would push every build up to Vagrant Cloud, probably not what is desired when the template is being developed, updated, and/or tested. In spite of the error message, it will still successfully create a box you can test locally. For example:

vagrant box add --name "RancherOS_1.3.0-local" RancherOS_1.3.0.box
mkdir -p test && cd test
vagrant init RancherOS_1.3.0-local
vagrant up

packer version && vagrant -v && vboxmanage --version

	Packer v1.2.3
	Vagrant 2.0.4
	5.2.12r122591

• MIT
• Authors/Contributors: Matthew Hartstonge, M.A. Alfarra, Christian Wagner