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Proposal: Virtualbox: Support non-boot2docker images #1541

Open dave-tucker opened 9 years ago

dave-tucker commented 9 years ago

As a user, I want to make my "dev" environment as close to my "staging" environment as possible. Today I use boot2docker in dev and when I use Digital Ocean (or another driver) I get an Ubuntu LTS image. I want to use an Ubuntu LTS image with the virtualbox driver as my "dev" environment.

This is particularly important where one is using (or expecting to use) software that requires a specific kernel version. We are spoiled that b2d is always close to bleeding edge. In reality the major distros can be quite far behind and this occasionally causes issues.

I would image it possible to use the Ubuntu Cloud Images with the nocloud cloud-init datasource. Most major linux distros have images that could be used in the same way.

nathanleclaire commented 9 years ago

:+1:

r4j4h commented 9 years ago

:+1:

chantra commented 9 years ago

In #1538 I was suggesting to be able to use vagrant boxes. My original intent is to be able to easily provision most distros by leveraging the effort made by projects like bento, whose boxes are available there: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/chef

chantra commented 9 years ago

and yes, let me also :+1: that!

dave-tucker commented 9 years ago

For prosperity, links to other distros that support the same - image + cloud-init, there are probably more out there...

steve-jansen commented 9 years ago

:+1: