heyimalex / boxer

Little shell utility that helps you package Vagrant boxes.

boxer

Little shell utility that helps you package Vagrant boxes. Just cd to a directory where you have a Vagrantfile and associated provisioning scripts and call boxer box NAME. The script will provision the box according to the Vagrantfile, repackage it as NAME, and then clean up after itself.

boxer <COMMAND>

Used to build, package, and add vagrant boxes.

commands:
    box <NAME> : builds the box, packages it, adds it, and cleans up
    provision : provisions the box (basically just vagrant up)
    package <NAME> : packages and adds the currently running box
    clean : destroys the currently running box and deletes .vagrant

If the build fails, you can fix your provisioning scripts and try again, or, if the install needs to be restarted completely, run boxer clean first. The script is just a thin wrapper around a few Vagrant commands, so intervening manually (say, to only run certain provisioners) can be done by just calling Vagrant directly.

Used to manage my base development boxes. Something like packer seemed too heavy-weight and added a lot of complexity compared to just doing it inside of Vagrant.