Example of using Vagrant to provide Docker (host plus container) and subsequently Puppet for the detailed provisioning of the Docker container.

This can be useful when:

• the Dockerfile becomes very complex
• Puppet is your preferred tool for configuring(certain aspects of) environments
• during the container build process you want to make use of large files and/or intermediate files that you want not to be included in the layers underneath your container (or image)

The steps are:

vagrant up my-puppet-base-container => to provision the dockerhostvm (if required) and the Puppet enabled docker container vagrant ssh into dockerhostvm docker ps -a to find container id for the Docker container my-puppet-base-container docker start container id => this container runs with volume (folder mappings) to the host-folders files and puppet docker exec -it container id bash "/u01/run2Puppet.sh" => this script runs puppet apply on the base.pp manifest note: the local folder puppet/manifests contains Puppet manifest base.pp

docker commit containerId me/myimage:version1 => create an image for the current state of the container vagrant up my-complete-container

note: my-complete-container has a folder mapping to the local directory runtime-files (just to show that it is easy to do); it does not have the folder-mappings to files and puppet that my-puppet-base-container used.