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SmartOS on Vagrant

SmartOS provides the best Node.js experience, and is an all-around powerhouse operating system. Many developers use Vagrant to manage runtimes and build environments.

We want to bring an up to date version of SmartOS to Vagrant.

Install/Run

  1. Install SmartOS on Virtualbox
  2. Setup port forwarding from localhost:2222 to vbox:22

The GLOBALZ folder is an unpacked set of scripts to install on the SmartOS global zone.

  1. Run make package
  2. Copy vagrant-tools.tar.gz to SmartOS (scp, or python -m SimpleHTTPServer)
  3. On SmartOS run tar -zxf vagrant-tools.tar.gz -C /
  4. Restart SmartOS

An SMF job should prepare the OS. The first time you do this, it may take a while since it has to download a new VM image.

Vagrant rougly connects to your instance with the following line:

ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -p 2222 vagrant@localhost

Todo

  • add resiliency to scripts
  • add automation
  • let SmartOS/VirtualBoxTools be pluggable for fast updates

Goals

  1. to automate the vagrant-ification of a base smarts build

  2. users should be able to get running with

     vagrant init smartos http://example/smartos-vagrant.box
 vagrant up
 vagrant ssh

  3. The box should include Nodejs and all necessary build tools for compiling c++ node extensions

  4. create an awesome single-page advertising how awesome smartos vagrant boxes are

Plans

Andrzej Szeszo has provided a great head-start with his build scripts and running example. We plan to expand upon this.

Prepare Script

A prep-script should run on a base SmartOS box. Todos in no particular order:

  • create a vagrant zone
  • add nodejs packages to vagrant zone
  • assign global and vagrant zones to use DHCP
  • setup dns
  • vagrant ssh should reach the vagrant zone, not the global zone