[jira] [Commented] (BIGTOP-871) Add a Boxgrinder wrapper to Bigtop

["Sean Mackrory (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Sean Mackrory commented on BIGTOP-871:
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I'm actually thinking a better approach is to use Packer - which would allow us to share "provisioning" scripts with Jay Vyas' recent Vagrant work...

> Add a Boxgrinder wrapper to Bigtop
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIGTOP-871
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-871
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sean Mackrory
>            Assignee: Sean Mackrory
>         Attachments: boxgrinder-bigtop.tar.gz
>
>
> There are certain improvements that I think can be made to the Bigtop VMs that are probably best accomplished by making a simple wrapper around Boxgrinder. Improvements include:
> - For including hypervisor-specific extensions, like VMWare Tools or Virtualbox Guest additions
> - More polishing of the resulting artifacts, like creating OVA appliances, tweak the VMX appliances
> - A good way to separate the boxgrinder configuration for each component
> I've done some tinkering in this direction and will post code for my ideas soon.



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