Installing CentOS 5.5 & Puppet on Vagrant

vagrant.txt

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

* Installing CentOS 5.5 & Puppet
** Notes

** Download install iso: http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso

** Create a new VirtualBox machine
- Name: vagrant-centos
- Operating System: Linux
- Version: Red Hat

- Base Memory Size: 360 MB
- Create new hard disk
- Dynamically expanding storage
- 40 GB

- Disable Audio
- Disable USB
- Make sure network is set to NAT
- Attach the net install ISO to the CDROM

- Run it

** Run through install procedure
- (mode: linux text)
- Installation Method: HTTP
- Disable IPv6, leave IPv4 enabled with DHCP
- HTTP Setup:
  - Web site name: mirrors.kernel.org
  - CentOS directory: /centos/5.4/os/i386

- Use text mode
- Initialize drive and erase data: yes
- Configure network: yes
  - Set hostname to vagrant-centos
- Root password: vagrant
- Customize software installation:
  - Unselect:
    - Dial-up networking
    - Editors
    - Text-based internet
    - Base

- Remove CDRom media
- Reboot
- Disable firewall

  $ service iptables save
  $ service iptables stop
  $ chkconfig iptables off

  $ service ip6tables save
  $ service ip6tables stop
  $ chkconfig ip6tables off

** Add stuff

- Upgrade Kernel
  
  $ yum upgrade kernel

- useful

  $ yum install curl ftp rsync sudo time wget which vixie-cron

- for building Virtualbox Additions

  $ yum install gcc bzip2 make kernel-devel

** Remove stuff

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

** VirtualBox Additions
- Devices -> Install Guest Additions...
  $ sudo mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
  $ sudo sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
- Error about Xwindows install - should be okay (?)

** vagrant user
- groupadd admin
- useradd -G admin vagrant
- passwd vagrant
# choose "vagrant" as the password
# set up sudo permissions:
  $ visudo

- Add the following lines at the bottom:
  # Vagrant user should be able to sudo
  %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

- Comment out the following line:
  # Defaults requiretty # (otherwise ssh <command> doesn't work)

# Add the variable "PATH" to the "Defaults env_keep" list.
# (otherwise sudo cleans the path, and loses ruby, which ohai needs)
# (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257616)

# Add the /usr/sbin and /sbin to the path:
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin' >> ~vagrant/.bashrc

** Log out as root, log in as vagrant

** Install epel, elff, ius, pgdg (as vagrant user)
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/i386/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 puppet
sudo yum -y install rubygems
sudo gem install puppet --no-ri --no-rdoc --version=2.6.4 # optionally specify version needed

# update everything
sudo yum -y update

** Add Vagrant's "insecure" public key
mkdir .ssh
chmod 755 .ssh
curl https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub > .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys

** Fiddle with MAC addres
- sudo /sbin/ifconfig
- write down MAC address of eth0 (eg. 08:00:27:AE:D9:11 )

sudo yum clean headers packages dbcache expire-cache
- shut down vm
sudo shutdown -P now

** Export and package
Follow instructions on http://vagrantup.com/docs/base_boxes.html