Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Environment

Overview

This repository contains the source template for the Ubuntu 16.04 desktop image used in the O'Relly Learning Chef for Linux and macOS video. The image is published on Atlas.

Building the Vagrant boxes with Packer

To build all the boxes, you will need VirtualBox, VMware Fusion/VMware Workstation and Parallels installed.

Parallels requires that the Parallels Virtualization SDK for Mac be installed as an additional preqrequisite.

VMware Fusion boxes require this patch when running version 8.1.0 to enable port forwarding: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2016/01/workaround-of-nat-port-forwarding-issue-in-fusion-8-1.html

We make use of JSON files containing user variables to build specific versions of Ubuntu. You tell packer to use a specific user variable file via the -var-file= command line option. This will override the default options on the core ubuntu.json packer template, which builds Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop by default.

For example, to build Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop, use the following:

$ packer build -var-file=ubuntu1604-desktop.json ubuntu.json

If you want to make boxes for a specific desktop virtualization platform, use the -only parameter. For example, to build Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop for VirtualBox:

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso -var-file=ubuntu1604-desktop.json ubuntu.json

Building the Vagrant boxes with the box script

We've also provided a wrapper script bin/box for ease of use, so alternatively, you can use the following to build Ubuntu 16.04 for all providers:

$ bin/box build ubuntu1604-desktop

Or if you just want to build Ubuntu 16.04 for VirtualBox:

$ bin/box build ubuntu1604-desktop virtualbox

Building the Vagrant boxes with the Makefile

A GNU Make Makefile drives a complete basebox creation pipeline with the following stages:

• build - Create basebox *.box files
• assure - Verify that the basebox *.box files produced function correctly
• deliver - Upload *.box files to Artifactory, Atlas or an S3 bucket

The pipeline is driven via the following targets, making it easy for you to include them in your favourite CI tool:

make build   # Build all available box types
make assure  # Run tests against all the boxes
make deliver # Upload box artifacts to a repository
make clean   # Clean up build detritus