Developer Target for Snappy

Sergio Schvezov sergio.schvezov at canonical.com
Thu Jan 8 01:52:04 UTC 2015


On miércoles 7 de enero de 2015 19h'23:09 ART, Ben Howard wrote:
> In looking at the problems with creating VM images for 
> developers, there are a large number that use Virtualbox (i.e 
> Vagrant) or VMware Fusion on their shiny Macs. About a year ago 
> we released Vagrant images that quickly became extremely 
> popular, with over 1M downloads. 
>
> While working on enabling VMware and Virtualbox, it became 
> apparent that we run a real risk of having a dozen downloads if 
> we are not careful. What I would like to propose is that we have 
> the standard "core", "cloud", and a "developer" image. 
>
> The idea behind the developer image is that we would put all 
> the stuff that makes development easy and target the 
> "non-production" environments. 
>
> My initial proposed requirements are:
> SSH enabled by default
> Vagrant user defined
> /home/vagrant exists
> password is locked
> defined a sudoer

SSH enabled by default shouldn't be a problem. I don't think we have a user 
management story/solution yet with these read only images.

> Packages installed:
> virtualbox-dkms modules pre-built

I guess this can go into a specific "device" channel.

> open-vm-tools
> virtualbox-guest-utils
> ssh-import-id
> Thoughts? 

Can these be put into a framework?




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