It seems like the right direction is to move from Amazon Linux to a CentOS basebox for the reference implementation on Vagrant builds. Amazon Linux will continue to be useful for AWS Workspace lab environments. CentOS is a close relative which means the bootstrapping steps and available packages should be similar.
Why? Using either the official or generic Vagrant boxes, we gain native Hyper-V provisioning, which addresses issue #151.
Options currently under consideration are:
The official centos/7 box. This is provided by CentOS but on the downside it gets less frequent updates (last one was a couple years ago as of this post).
The generic/centos7 box. This is unofficial, but hosted on Vagrant Cloud and frequently updated.
I like the idea of going with more frequent updates; however there is the risk that frequent are more likely to introduce instability at times, so that should be considered.
It seems like the right direction is to move from Amazon Linux to a CentOS basebox for the reference implementation on Vagrant builds. Amazon Linux will continue to be useful for AWS Workspace lab environments. CentOS is a close relative which means the bootstrapping steps and available packages should be similar.
Why? Using either the official or generic Vagrant boxes, we gain native Hyper-V provisioning, which addresses issue #151.
Options currently under consideration are:
I like the idea of going with more frequent updates; however there is the risk that frequent are more likely to introduce instability at times, so that should be considered.