A Vagrant example of the systemd python package

Vagrantfile-python-systemd

# With Vagrant and Virtualbox installed, running `vagrant up` in a directory with this file
# will create an Ubuntu Xenial VM running on Virtualbox and then will install the 
# prerequisites for and then the systemd python package for python3. After 
# installation, a simple test is run and it's output will be shown.

$SCRIPT = <<EOS
apt-get update
apt-get install -qq libsystemd-dev libncurses5-dev python3-dev
curl -fsSl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
pip3 install systemd
python3 -c 'from systemd import journal; journal.write("Hello Lennart")'
journalctl -xe | tail
EOS

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"
  config.vm.provision :shell,
      inline: $SCRIPT,
      privileged: true
end