CentOS-7 Minimal Box

This provides the configuration to build a Vagrant minimal box using Packer. The box is intended for server (terminal) use only which allows for a smaller box size.

There is a template provided for the CentOS-7 x86_64 architecture.

Usage Instructions

Prerequisites

The build environment required is Mac OSX or GNU Linux.

To build the box file you will need the following installed:

• VirtualBox (6.1.10)
• Vagrant (2.2.10)
• Packer (v1.6.5)

ISO

It is assumed that you have downloaded the CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2003.iso and placed it in the packer-centos directory as CentOS-7-x64-Minimal.iso.

Alternatively, you may edit the iso_url in the CentOS-7-x64.json which is the packer template file:

For instance; "iso_url": "http://mirror.ucu.ac.ug/centos/7.8.2003/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-2003.iso"

Build and Run

1. Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/miirochristopher/packer-centos.git 

2. Go to the root directory.

$ cd packer-centos/

3. To build the x86_64 box, run:

$ PACKER_LOG=1 PACKER_LOG_PATH=packer.log packer build CentOS-7-x64.json

4. To run the box, run:

$ vagrant up 

5. To ssh into the box, run:

$ vagrant ssh