make it easy to pull the 'latest' platform image

[bixu]

would be great to be able to do something like config.global_zone.platform_image = 'latest' in my Vagrantfile

[sax]

Yeah, I was thinking of this the other day. Right now the bit that checks for and downloads the platform image lives here: https://github.com/vagrant-smartos/vagrant-smartos-zones/blob/master/lib/vagrant/smartos/zones/util/platform_images.rb

This can just check for the magic string latest and execute another code path before continuing with what's already there:

• check the public manta URL for the latest iso, see where it redirects to, extract the platform image
• keep a cache of what the latest platform image, so that if we're not connected to the internet we can still use Vagrant

[tylerflint]

Yup. +1

[sax]

@bixu this should work with the latest pre-release (that I just pushed to rubygems). Want to give it a try?

[sax]

I've started using this in my local development, and it seems to work!