Abiquo Vagrant Provider

vagrant-abiquo is a provider plugin for Vagrant that supports the management of Abiquo virtual machines

Current features include:

  • create and destroy virtualmachines
  • power on and off virtualmachines

The provider has been tested with Vagrant 1.4.x using Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.3 guest operating systems.

Install

Installation of the provider requires two steps:

  1. Install the provider plugin using the Vagrant command-line interface:

    $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-abiquo

Configure

Once the provider has been installed, you will need to configure your project to use it. The most basic Vagrantfile to create a droplet on Digital Ocean is shown below:

Vagrantfile content goes here

Please note the following:

  • You must specify the override.ssh.private_key_path to enable authentication with the droplet. The provider will create a new Digital Ocean SSH key using your public key which is assumed to be the private_key_path with a .pub extension.
  • You must specify your Digital Ocean Client and API keys. These may be found on the control panel within the My Settings > API Access section.

Supported Configuration Attributes

The following attributes are available to further configure the provider:

  • provider.image - A string representing the image to use when creating a new droplet (e.g. Debian 6.0 x64). The available options may be found on Digital Ocean's new droplet form. It defaults to Ubuntu 14.04.3 x64.
  • provider.region - A string representing the region to create the new droplet in. It defaults to New York 2.
  • provider.size - A string representing the size to use when creating a new droplet (e.g. 1GB). It defaults to 512MB.
  • provider.private_networking - A boolean flag indicating whether to enable a private network interface (if the region supports private networking). It defaults to false.
  • provider.backups_enabled - A boolean flag indicating whether to enable backups for the droplet. It defaults to false.
  • provider.ssh_key_name - A string representing the name to use when creating a Digital Ocean SSH key for droplet authentication. It defaults to Vagrant.
  • provider.setup - A boolean flag indicating whether to setup a new user account and modify sudo to disable tty requirement. It defaults to true. If you are using a tool like packer to create reusable snapshots with user accounts already provisioned, set to false.

The provider will create a new user account with the specified SSH key for authorization if config.ssh.username is set and the provider.setup attribute is true.

Run

After creating your project's Vagrantfile with the required configuration attributes described above, you may create a new droplet with the following command:

$ vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean

This command will create a new droplet, setup your SSH key for authentication, create a new user account, and run the provisioners you have configured.

Supported Commands

The provider supports the following Vagrant sub-commands:

  • vagrant destroy - Destroys the droplet instance.
  • vagrant ssh - Logs into the droplet instance using the configured user account.
  • vagrant halt - Powers off the droplet instance.
  • vagrant provision - Runs the configured provisioners and rsyncs any specified config.vm.synced_folder.
  • vagrant reload - Reboots the droplet instance.
  • vagrant rebuild - Destroys the droplet instance and recreates it with the same IP address is was assigned to previously.
  • vagrant status - Outputs the status (active, off, not created) for the droplet instance.

Contribute

To contribute, clone the repository, and use Bundler to install dependencies:

$ bundle

To run the provider's tests:

$ bundle exec rake test

You can now make modifications. Running vagrant within the Bundler environment will ensure that plugins installed in your Vagrant environment are not loaded.