Vagrant Linux Desktop
Summary
Provide a method of reproducible graphical development environments based on Linux. This repository provides a base Linux Desktop environment, sandboxed on your local computer.
Getting Started
You can use this locally with vagrant up, calling as such:
vagrant --name=mydesktop --file=desktop.yaml up
However It is recommended to use the script create.sh for the first run to ensure all necessary arguments are provided. The provided arguments requires a settings.yaml, storing the settings for the machine. You can see an example of one in tools/simple.yaml. You can create the machine by calling:
sh create.sh -n mydesktop -d ubuntu
If you want more information about the script create.sh, you can do so by calling:
sh create.sh -h
Parameters
The parameters are used in the calling of vagrant up, primarily as vagrant [OPTIONS] up. After provisioning the environment, a settings file (setting.yaml) is created, which stores the provided parameters.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string |
Name of the provisioned desktop environment |
| desktop | filename |
The name of the desktop provisioning script. These scripts are present in packaging/environments. |
The vagrant environment is based on the bento/ubuntu images. If the timezone is not set, the provision script will attempt to auto-detect the timezone using tzupdate.
Settings
The following are arguments to the settings.yaml file:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string |
Name of the provisioned desktop environment |
| box | vagrant-box |
The name of the underlying vagrant box |
| path | dirname |
The path to the .vagrant directory |
| desktop | string |
The name of the desktop provisioning script |
| logs | dirname |
The directory to dump logs files |
| synced_folders | (host: directory, guest: directory)[] |
A collection of syneced folders. |
An example yaml is included below:
name: lab
box: ubuntu/trusty64
path: "."
desktop: ubuntu-minimal
logs: "log_dir"
synced_folders:
- host: "../"
guest: "/media/vagrant"
Acknowledgements
The project icon is retrieved from the Noun Project. The original source material has been altered for the purposes of the project. The icon is used under the terms of the Public Domain.
The project icon is by Maxi Koichi from the Noun Project.