diff --git a/content/posts/manage-vms-with-vagrant-on-chromebook/index.md b/content/posts/manage-vms-with-vagrant-on-chromebook/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..050dde0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/manage-vms-with-vagrant-on-chromebook/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +--- +title: "Manage VMs With HashiCorp Vagrant on a Chromebook" # Title of the blog post. +date: 2023-02-18T17:22:02-06:00 # Date of post creation. +# lastmod: 2023-02-18T17:22:02-06:00 # Date when last modified +description: "Pairing the powerful Linux Development Environment on modern Chromebooks with HashiCorp Vagrant for managing local virtual machines for development and testing" # Description used for search engine. +featured: false # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar. +draft: true # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered. +toc: true # Controls if a table of contents should be generated for first-level links automatically. +usePageBundles: true +# menu: main +# featureImage: "file.png" # Sets featured image on blog post. +# featureImageAlt: 'Description of image' # Alternative text for featured image. +# featureImageCap: 'This is the featured image.' # Caption (optional). +# thumbnail: "thumbnail.png" # Sets thumbnail image appearing inside card on homepage. +# shareImage: "share.png" # Designate a separate image for social media sharing. +codeLineNumbers: false # Override global value for showing of line numbers within code block. +series: Projects +tags: + - linux + - chromeos + - homelab + - infrastructure-as-code +comment: true # Disable comment if false. +--- +I've lately been trying to do more with [Salt](https://saltproject.io/) at work, but I'm still very much a novice with that tool. I thought it would be great to have a nice little lab environment where I could deploy a few lightweight VMs and practice managing them with Salt - without impacting any systems that are actually being used for anything. I thought it might be fun to create and manage the VMs with [HashiCorp Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/), and ultimately provision them with [HashiCorp Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/). That would give me the tools for quickly creating and destroying a full lab environment in short order. + +Also, because I'm a bit of a sadist, I wanted to do this all on my new [Framework Chromebook](https://frame.work/laptop-chromebook-12-gen-intel). I might as well put my 32GB of RAM to good use, right? It took a bit of fumbling, but this article describes what it took to get a Vagrant VM up and running in the [Linux Development Environment](https://chromeos.dev/en/linux) on my Chromebook (which is currently running ChromeOS v111 beta). + +Prereqs: +```shell +sudo apt update +sudo apt install \ + build-essential \ + gpg \ + lsb-release \ + wget +``` + +Install `libvirt`-related prereqs: +```shell +sudo apt install virt-manager libvirt-dev +``` + +Add self to `libvirt` group: +```shell +sudo gpasswd -a $USER libvirt ; newgrp libvirt +``` + +Add HashiCorp repo: +```shell +wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg +echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list +``` + +Install `vagrant` and plugins: +```shell +sudo apt update +sudo apt install vagrant +vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt +``` + +Prepare a Vagrant directory: +```shell +mkdir vagrant-bullseye +cd vagrant-bullseye +vagrant init debian/bullseye64 +``` + +Install `rsync`: +```shell +sudo apt install rsync +``` + +Enable `rsync` (and disable NFS, which isn't supported within LXD) for Vagrant by editing the `Vagrantfile` to include: +``` + config.nfs.verify_installed = false + config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', type: 'rsync' +``` + +Start the VM: +```shell +vagrant up +``` + +Log in: +```shell +vagrant ssh +``` +