{"id":829,"date":"2013-09-22T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-09-22T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:00:42","slug":"centos-vagrant-base-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"CentOS Vagrant Base Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will show how to create a headless <a title=\"The Community ENTerprise Operating System\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CentOS<\/strong> <\/a>minimal installation &#8220;box&#8221; using <a title=\"Development environments made easy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vagrantup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vagrant<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a><\/strong>. Similar results can be accomplished without Vagrant, but I find that with a little extra work, Vagrant adds enough value to make the effort worth it. According to their website:<\/p>\n<p>Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development\/production parity, and makes the &#8220;works on my machine&#8221; excuse a relic of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll need (version used in this tutorial):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Latest version of <strong><a title=\"VirtualBox Downloads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/wiki\/Downloads\" target=\"_blank\">VirtualBox<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(4.2.18)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"CentOS 6.4 i386 minimal install\" href=\"http:\/\/mirrors.kernel.org\/centos\/6.4\/isos\/i386\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CentOS<\/strong> <\/a>Linux operating system&#8211;32-bit minimal installation ISO (6.4)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Vagrant Downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vagrantup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vagrant<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1.3.3)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Download PuTTY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PuTTY<\/strong> <\/a>(0.62) or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/git-scm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Git<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(1.8.4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep in mind, while I did this in Windows 7, the same can be accomplished in OSX and Linux. So let&#8217;s get started and see how it&#8217;s done. Click <strong><a title=\"CentOS Vagrant Base Box\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=852\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for the tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>Note: If all you want is the Vagrant box you can download it <a title=\"CentOS 6.4 minimal Vagrant box\" href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/centos64-32.box\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will show how to create a headless CentOS minimal installation &#8220;box&#8221; using Vagrant and VirtualBox. Similar results can be accomplished without Vagrant, but I find that with a little extra work, Vagrant adds enough value to make the effort worth it. According to their website: Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. &#8230; <a title=\"CentOS Vagrant Base Box\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=829\" aria-label=\"Read more about CentOS Vagrant Base Box\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}