nixbox
NixOS Vagrant boxes [maintainer=@ifurther] (by nix-community)
bento
Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms (by chef)
| nixbox | bento | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | |
| 296 | 4,190 | |
| 2.7% | 0.3% | |
| 7.1 | 7.2 | |
| 3 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| HCL | HCL | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nixbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of nixbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Preparing Vagrant NixBox.
I am learning NixOS, and its packaging system and I would say the learning curve is steep. My work is based on this repo https://github.com/nix-community/nixbox. I want to install some common development environments such as golang, rust, zig. I see that it provides a place holder to add my custom configurations. How should I go about adding configuration for above tooling. I just need a single example that i can follow. For example how to pull the packages, I to configure directories, and environment variables etc. Thank you in advance for any help.
bento
Posts with mentions or reviews of bento.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-08.
- Windows Server Datacenter French Edition
- Can I **completely** automate the provisioning of Debian servers/laptops?
- Get RHEL installation source
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Lightweight Debian based box
The github page has packer templates that you can modify to make your own custom boxes.
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Unattend.xml Windows 2019 reusable
- https://github.com/chef/bento/tree/main/packer_templates/windows
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Looking for CI/CD practice for home
I've previously used Hashicorp Packer configs in a private git repo (based on the 'chef bento' configs used for many standard Vagrant boxes) that can build template server images for and then deploy a complete fully unattended CI pipeline from scratch, using nothing more than Apache Subversion (built into CentOS and RHEL but also has an excellent Windows version!) and Jenkins. Takes under 15 mins to provision both and can be tested locally (and completely offline!) in Virtualbox as it uses a limited amount of resources. I developed the solution for a rather risk averse client that required a cheap and easy reusable centrally managed CI pipeline that could handle larger sources than git by default and be built from artefacts on a private 'air-gapped and sheep-dipped' LAN with verified SHA256 hashes for all vendor binaries. Source: https://github.com/chef/bento
- Who still uses vagrant and why?