Vagrant

Dustin Spinhirne's OVN tutorial was recently mentioned on the OVS mailing list. His examples use a single host in an ESXi environment with virtual hosts simulated through namespace commands.

As an excuse to try out Vagrant automation skills, I created a Vagrant multi-host test environment running in VirtualBox. Interfaces are automatically created, ip addresses automatically assigned, and guests can have readable names. Previous articles here explain how I built a recent custom kernel and how I built the latest version of OVS/OVN. The resulting kernel and packages are used to spool up this Vagrant/VirtualBox test environment for playing with OVN.

OVS/OVN Vagrant on GitHub is an environment I have for building with current kernels, generating current OVS/OVN packages, and using them in an OVN Lab type environment. Continue reading "VirtualBox/Vagrant Test Environment for Dustin..." »

A little bit more automation: with each new kernel version that comes out, I need to update my base Vagrant image, and as a result, update the VirtualBox Guest Additions as well.

Here is my Vagrantfile to control the process. The VM is started three times, of which only two are really necessary (the first two). These are the steps: Continue reading "Multiple Provisioners in Vagrant" »