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Installing CentOS 5.6 64-bit and Puppet on Vagrant
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Installing CentOS 5.6 64-bit and Puppet on Vagrant

Notes

This document is an adaptation of the instructions found here: http://vagrantup.com/docs/base_boxes.html

These instructions are specifically for 64-bit CentOS and Puppet.

Created with the following software:

  • Mac OS X 10.6.8
  • VirtualBox 4.0.10
  • vagrant 0.7.6

Download install ISO: TODO url

Create a new VirtualBox machine

Launch VirtualBox.

Click New.

The New Virtual Machine Wizard launches.

Click Continue.

VM Name and OS Type

  • Name: vagrant-centos
  • Operating System: Linux
  • Version: Red Hat (64 bit)

Click Continue.

Memory

  • Base Memory Size: 360 MB

Click Continue.

Virtual Hard Disk

  • Select Boot Hard Disk.
  • Select Create new hard disk.

Click Continue.

The Create New Virtual Disk Wizard launches.

Click Continue.

Hard Disk Storage Type

  • Select Dynamically expanding storage.

Click Continue.

Virtual Disk Location and Size

  • Location: vagrant-centos
  • Size: 40.00 GB

Click Continue.

Finish creation of disk:

Click Done.

Finish creation of VM:

Click Done.

Adjust VM settings

Select vagrant-centos.

Click Settings in the toolbar.

Disable Audio

Select Audio tab in Settings window.

  • Deselect Enable Audio.

Make sure network is set to NAT

Select Network tab in Settings window.

  • Select Adapter 1 tab.
  • Select Enable Network Adapter.
  • Attached to: NAT

Disable USB

Select Ports tab in Settings window.

  • Select USB tab.
  • Deselect Enable USB Controller.

Save Settings

Click OK.

Attach install ISO to the VM

Select vagrant-centos.

Click Settings in the toolbar.

Select Storage tab in Settings window.

  • Select Empty under IDE Controller.
  • On the right side of the window, to the right of CD/DVD Drive: IDE Secondary, click the CD icon and select Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file….
  • Navigate to and select CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
  • Click Open.
  • Click OK.

Run the VM

Select vagrant-centos.

Click Start in the toolbar.

Run through the install procedure

At the boot: prompt type:

linux text

and press Enter.

Run through the prompts, choosing reasonable defaults. Settings of note:

Initialize the drive and erase all data, choosing the option:

Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout.

When configuring the eth0 interface:

Select:

[*] Activate on boot
[*] Enable IPv4 support

Leave IPv6 disabled.

For the network configuration select:

(*) Dynamic IP configuration (DHCP)

For the hostname configuration select:

(*) manually

And set the hostname to: vagrant-centos

Set the root password to: vagrant

In the package selection:

Deselect:

[ ] Desktop - Gnome

Select:

[*] Customize software selection

In the customized package group selection deselect everything, including:

[ ] Base
[ ] Dialup Networking Support
[ ] Editors
[ ] Text-based Internet

Finish installation

Remove the disk image:

  • Devices -> CD/DVD Devices -> Remove disk from virtual drive

Reboot the VM.

Set hostname

hostname vagrant-centos.vagrantup.com

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network to set the HOSTNAME line:

HOSTNAME=vagrant-centos.vagrantup.com

sshd configuration

Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set the UseDNS to no by adding the line:

UseDNS no

Add stuff

Upgrade the kernel:

yum -y upgrade kernel

Add some useful packages:

yum -y install curl ftp rsync sudo time wget which vixie-cron man bind-utils traceroute

Add packages needed for building VirtualBox Additions

yum -y install gcc bzip2 make kernel-devel

Remove stuff

yum -y erase wireless-tools gtk2 libX11 hicolor-icon-theme avahi freetype bitstream-vera-fonts

Reboot

Reboot the virtual machine to boot with the new kernel.

shutdown -r now

VirtualBox Additions

Load the guest additions disk:

  • Devices -> Install Guest Additions…

Mount the guest additions disk and run the install script:

mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

There will be an error about "Installing the Window System drivers". This should be okay(?).

Create the vagrant user

useradd vagrant

groupadd -r admin

usermod -G admin vagrant

Set the password for the vagrant user to "vagrant":

passwd vagrant

Set up sudo permissions:

visudo

Add the following lines at the bottom of the sudoers file:

## Allows users in group admin to run all commands without a password
%admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Comment out the Defaults requiretty line so ssh commands work:

## commented out so ssh commands works
#Defaults requiretty

Additionally comment out the Defaults !visiblepw line:

## commented out so ssh commands works
#Defaults !visiblepw

Add the variable PATH to the list of variables in the Defaults env_keep list.

Otherwise sudo cleans the path and loses ruby. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257616

Exit visudo.

Add /usr/sbin and /sbin to the vagrant user's PATH:

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin"' >> ~vagrant/.bashrc

Change to the vagrant user

Reboot to make sure the guest additions are loaded:

Log in as vagrant.

Install EPEL, ELFF, IUS

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.elff.bravenet.com/5/x86_64/elff-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-ELFF

sudo rpm -Uvh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-6.ius.el5.noarch.rpm

sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/IUS-COMMUNITY-GPG-KEY

Install ruby gems

sudo yum -y install ruby ruby-devel rubygems

Install puppet

sudo gem install puppet --no-ri --no-rdoc

Optionally, you can specify the version needed:

sudo gem install puppet --no-ri --no-rdoc --version=2.6.4

Update everything

sudo yum -y update

Add Vagrant's "insecure" public key

mkdir ~/.ssh

chmod 700 ~/.ssh

curl https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

Fiddle with MAC address

/sbin/ifconfig

Write down the MAC address of eth0 (eg. 08:00:27:AE:D9:11 ).

Clean up caches, etc.

sudo yum clean headers packages dbcache expire-cache

Shut down the VM

sudo shutdown -P now

Export and package

Follow instructions on http://vagrantup.com/docs/base_boxes.html

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