Create Virtual Machines with Vagrant and Puppet

Create the following puppet manifest and start VM with vagrant, you get a base production environment.

$ pwd

/home/chad/docs/vagrant-prj/gcpserver



$ cat Vagrantfile|grep -v '^s*#'

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "precise64"

  config.vm.network :public_network

  config.vm.provision "puppet"

end



$ cat manifests/default.pp

package { 'vsftpd':

  ensure => installed,

}

service { 'vsftpd':

  ensure => running,

  require => Package['vsftpd'],

}

user { "gcp":

  ensure     => "present",

  password   => 'gcp',

  managehome => true,

}



$ vagrant init

$ vagrant up

But the password doesn't work, see User Password Management Fails in Puppet for reason.

You have to modify password for user 'gcp' manually.

The type of network is written as "bridged" in api version 1 style.

Create multiple VMs

To specify hostname, memory size and some other parameters of each VM, modify Vagrantfile like this:

$ cat Vagrantfile|grep -v '^s*#'

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "precise64"



  config.vm.define "bvtserver" do |bvtserver|

    bvtserver.vm.hostname = "bvt-server"

    bvtserver.vm.network :public_network

    bvtserver.vm.provision :shell, path: "bvtprov.sh"

  end



  config.vm.define "production" do |production|

    production.vm.hostname = "gcp-server"

    production.vm.network :public_network

    production.vm.provision :puppet

    production.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vbox|

      vbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name", "ProductEnv", "--memory", 1024]

    end

  end

end

And add a shell script for provisioning of bvt server:

$ cat bvtprov.sh

echo "You can do some provisioning here"

Ref:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16740397/vagrant-network-type-bridged-is-invalid-please-use-a-valid-network-type

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18700060/seting-up-vm-hostname-undefined-method-hostname