http://jedi.be/blog/2011/03/31/installable-vagrant-boxes/

Initial whack at "projectizing" Patrick Debois' idea for packaging Vagrant boxes as deliverable Java Jar artifacts, to include a web-based admin UI for managing instances.

Requires

• VirtualBox
• JRuby
• rake and bundler

Clone

$ git clone git@github.com:maestrodev/wanton.git

Bundle

$ bundle install

Edit

Configure your base box environment by editing the lib/Vagrantfile appropriately. The default is this box:

http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box

Package

$ rake

Run

$ java -jar wanton.jar

The first time run will take a bit to fetch the box from S3, and launch. Hopefully you see something like this:

[Winstone 2011/03/31 20:45:31] - Beginning extraction from war file
[Winstone 2011/03/31 20:45:33] - No webapp classes folder found -
/private/var/folders/i5/i5UtK1YGGBmH5OaJiz7cX++++TI/-Tmp-/winstoneEmbeddedWAR/WEB-INF/classes
[webapp 2011/03/31 20:45:33] - jruby 1.6.0 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 330)
(2011-03-15 f3b6154) (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 1.6.0_24)
[darwin-x86_64-java]
[Winstone 2011/03/31 20:45:40] - HTTP Listener started: port=8080
[Winstone 2011/03/31 20:45:40] - AJP13 Listener started: port=8009
[Winstone 2011/03/31 20:45:40] - Winstone Servlet Engine v0.9.10

Then from a browser/client hit http://localhost:8080/up and you should see this in the console:

running: controlPort=disabled
we are loading the config file
#<Vagrant::Environment:0x100c
 @cwd=
 #<Pathname:/private/var/folders/i5/i5UtK1YGGBmH5OaJiz7cX++++TI/-Tmp-/winstoneEmbeddedWAR/WEB-INF/lib>,
 @loaded=false,
 @parent=nil,
 @vm=nil>
we are uping the machine, please wait...

And when it finishes loading:

[webapp 2011/03/31 20:47:52] - 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 -  [31/Mar/2011 20:47:52] "GET /up " 200 9 73.6910

[webapp 2011/03/31 20:47:53] - 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 -  [31/Mar/2011 20:47:53] "GET /favicon.ico " 404 18 0.0230

Then, in the browser you see:

We are up

Cleanup

$ rake clobber

Fork Away

To create your boxes! This project isn't meant to be configurable, just re-used to fabricate your own JAR-based deliverable VMs. It is expected that you'd want to do that anyway by populating the Vagrantfile with your OS and application configuration apparatus (Puppet or Chef).