build our own vagrant/chef-solo base box with veewee tool

[gildegoma]

veewee setup and validation

https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee sounds like killer vagrant-plugin to smoothly create base boxes on template base.

https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/blob/master/doc/installation.md

base box requirements (see #24 and stacks)

• chef(-solo) debate ?
  • do we have any compatible requirement with a hosting PaaS dependency (e.g. if some chef-ready hosting)
  • or simply the most recent version (10.16.x ...) ? useful to get maximum of features and also DEPRECATED warnings for coming Version 11

[Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:44:43 +0000] WARN: Setting attributes without specifying a precedence is deprecated and will be
removed in Chef 11.0. To set attributes at normal precedence, change code like:
`node["key"] = "value"` # Not this
to:
`node.set["key"] = "value"` # This

Called from:
  /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.16.2/lib/chef/node/attribute.rb:449:in `method_missing'
  /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.16.2/lib/chef/node.rb:346:in `method_missing'
  /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/mysql/libraries/helpers.rb:24:in `debian_before_squeeze?'

• 64bit or 32bit ?
  • https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit
• Virtualbox version ? I upgraded to 4.2.4!

[gildegoma]

got veewee now working. It just rocks! I'm going to push a first proposal of basebox soon...

see veewee for very quick start guide

[gildegoma]

• Pull request #29 is a first step to validate and accept veewee build tool. I still have some open issues about the VM I got:
  • sudo halt does not reach to shutdown virtual hardware... is it related to template/linuz parameters (no acpi mode,....) ?
  • default RAM memory?
  • which debian-based distro should we use...? an ubuntu LTS sounds good, but why not debian itself now ?
• As soon as #24 freezes the target OS, we'll quickly build a new base box (all well-known linux distros are in standard templates from veewee project).