Create pre-baked vm image about vagrant-mesos

[kpx-dev]

I'll take one this task using packer: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer

[everpeace]

@kienpham2000 It seems that I couldn't assign users who doesn't have push permission. As you commented, please take this task!

[kpx-dev]

@everpeace I looked into packer this weekend but I think using Vagrant with Docker is a better approach
https://www.vagrantup.com/blog/feature-preview-vagrant-1-6-docker-dev-environments.html

Have you tried this before? I got basic stuff running, first vagrant up is a little longer since it has to download docker image, but I think it's better than packer and current chef stuff.

[kpx-dev]

the Vagrant file is pretty simple too: kpx-dev@f92e5be

[everpeace]

@kienpham2000 Wow!! It's sooooo simple :0. Actually I've also tried to docker, but it was fig+docker. So I imagined we can simplify Vagrantfile in case of vagrant+docker, but. It is so much simple than I thought...

However, I would like to put more importance on multi-providers support. Currently, vagrant-mesos supports both virtualbox and aws providers. And, one of reasons why I started this project is to show how to use cookbook-mesos.

I understand that faster is better. So, I would like to support docker as you proposed. However, I want to keep supporting virtualbox and aws providers and using cookbook-mesos to provision vms (containers). So, creating pre-build images would be still important for this project.

I think docker provider support itself is good idea! To track this idea, I created #20. Then, I would be happy if you could contribute the task!!

By the way, I also looked into packer and I am close to finish it up, I tried and errored so many times :-P.... Once I finished, I will create another repo maybe packer-mesos. The packer templates are only for virtualbox and aws because I don't have parallels and vmware.

I will also publish baked vagrant boxes to Vagrant Cloud so that users can use everpeace/mesos box in their Vagrantfile.

How does this sound??

[kpx-dev]

@everpeace

• ok I'll contribute to #20 once I have docker stuff ready. Will discuss there about implementation detail
• for Packer, I was looking at bento (https://github.com/opscode/bento/tree/master/packer) and they has a lot of nice templates there, maybe you can re-use it.

[kpx-dev]

Also I noticed that Vagrant docker provider uses both virtualbox and boot2docker, pretty neat.

[everpeace]

@kienpham2000

Will discuss there about implementation detail

my pleasure! Yes, we'll need virtualbox + boot2docker on Mac. But, I think we don't need to write boot2docker related configurations in Vagrantfile explicitly.

bento (https://github.com/opscode/bento/tree/master/packer)

Uh oh.... These template looks... really nice! I spent almost two days in order to get similar templates :'(

[kpx-dev]

hehe right, because one of those json is used to create the box that we are using in the vagrantfile now