longrackslabs / baseboxes

== HOW TO USE ==

Clone repo

bundle install

BASE_BUILD=centos-7 bundle exec rake build

== NOTE ON BOX NAMES ==

Dash count indicates level in hierarchy and thus build order -

For instance -

rhel-7 <- base rhel-7-puppet4 <- next layer rhel-7-puppet4-ruby <- final layer

FOR RHEL7 - to build the ruby layer, you'll need to add the rhel subscription manager username and password to the script centos/7/ruby.sh

centos-6 <-- base build centos-6-puppet <-- builds on this centos-6-puppet-jenkins <-- builds on centos-6-puppet

== NOTE ON WINDOWS BUILDS ==

You will need an updates file locally (to be fixed later) for windows to mount. For now, this needs to be downloaded from Slalom's S3 service to a blobs/ directory within the baseboxes directory.

Download the Windows updates ISO by running:

bundle exec rake winblob

That command creates the blobs directory and downloads the updates ISO to that directory.

== Proxies == Call packer with -var and then http_proxy and https_proxy (and their capitalized counterparts if you like) to build boxes with proxies.

== Environment variables ==

HTTP_PROXY HTTPS_PROXY NO_PROXY BOX_BUILD - set to the name of a build to build only that box during rake spec BOX_OVERRIDE - set to true to have rake spec avoid building each box BOX_FORCE - rebuild packer box even if artifacts are present

== WINDOWS BOXES ==

In order to patch Windows offline the WSUS Offline Updater should be used to create an .ISO file of the available updates. A separate .ISO file should be made for each Operating System version by selecting "Create ISO image per selected product and language" option.

WSUS Offline Updater can be downloaded here. It must be downloaded, extracted and run on a Windows system. If using an internal WSUS server, it must be specified in the tool settings prior to downloading the updates.

For more information on how to use the Offline Updater look here.

Once the updates have been downloaded and the .ISO file created it is mounted as a separate DVD drive in VirtualBox. The updates are then applied from the local collection.