I’ve finally started working with vagrant to make development of the ansible roles I’ve also been working on easier.  As the majority of the vagrant/ansible world out there seems to be very Ubuntu focused, I’ve decided to focus on getting some stuff out there for the latest version of CentOS. I like Ubuntu too, but I prefer the much longer support cycle of CentOS. I also thought it would be a great learning experience to build a vagrant box from scratch.

I’ve uploaded my box to atlas here and made it publicly available. You can add it to vagrant with:

Some technical notes:

• CentOS 7.1 (1503)
• 64 bit only
• default minimal install
• SELinux is disabled
• fully yum updated on 2015-04-28
• providers for virtualbox and vmware_desktop

I’m hoping to add more providers in the future. Hashicorp’s packer might help there, but I have not had a chance to experiment with that yet.