Vagrant-friendly Docker Base Images

A collection of Vagrant-friendly docker base images (published for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 platforms) along with corresponding Vagrant baseboxes. Something inbetween the official distro base image and puhsion/baseimage, just enough to make it work with Vagrant.

On top of the official distro base image it includes:

• the vagrant user (password vagrant) with passwordless sudo enabled
• the vagrant insecure public key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• sshd running in the foreground

Vagrant Baseboxes

The intended use of the Vagrant-friendly docker base images is to use them as a basebox in your Vagrantfile. These baseboxes simply reference one of the actual docker base images below.

The following baseboxes are currently published on Vagrant Cloud:

• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-22.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-20.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-18.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-16.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-14.04

Usage

Use the config.vm.box setting to specify the basebox in your Vagrantfile.

For example, run vagrant init tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-22.04 --minimal to create the Vagrantfile below:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-22.04"
end

Then, running vagrant up --provider docker should look similar to this:

W:\repo\sample>vagrant up --provider=docker
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'docker' provider...
==> default: Creating the container...
    default:   Name: minimal_default_1441605508
    default:  Image: tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04
    default: Volume: /w/repo/sample:/vagrant
    default:   Port: 0.0.0.0:2222:22
    default:
    default: Container created: f366398390f6b33f
==> default: Starting container...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 192.168.59.104:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default:
    default: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace
    default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security.
    default:
    default: Inserting generated public key within guest...
    default: Removing insecure key from the guest if it's present...
    default: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!

Multi-Platform Support

In case you want bring up the docker base images for an architecture different from your host OS you can do that by setting the $DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM environment variable.

For example, to run the arm64 base image on an amd64 host:

$ DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/arm64 vagrant up --povider docker

Or vice versa, to use the amd64 base image:

$ DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 vagrant up --povider docker

Please note: running the base image under an architecture different from your host OS will run the container emulated under QEMU, which might be substantially slower than running the container under the native architecture!

Docker Base Images

In case you want to work with the actual docker base images directly, the following ones (see subdirectories) are available on docker hub (published as multi-arch docker images, supporting linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 platforms):

• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:20.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:18.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:16.04
• tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:14.04

Usage

You can use it in your Vagrantfile in it's most simple form like this and then run vagrant up:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.provider "docker" do |d|
    d.image = "tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04"
  end
end

If you want to use provisioners, you need to additionally tell vagrant that this container has ssh enabled:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.provider "docker" do |d|
    d.image = "tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04"
    d.has_ssh = true
  end

  # use shell and other provisioners as usual
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "echo 'hello docker!'"
end

Multi-Platform Support

As an alternative to using the $DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM environment variable mentioned above, you can also pass the desired --platform directly via the docker provider configuration in your Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.provider "docker" do |d|
    d.image = "tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04"
    d.create_args = [ '--platform=linux/arm64' ]
  end
end

Development

Prerequisites

Prerequisites you need to have installed:

• Docker
• Vagrant
• Ruby

Building and Testing

Install bundler dependencies first:

$ bundle install

To build the Docker Base Images for Ubuntu 22.04:

$ bundle exec rake build:docker:base_images PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04

Run integration tests for the Docker Base Image:

$ bundle exec rake test:docker:base_images PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04
rspec --format doc --color --tty spec/baseimage_spec.rb

vagrant-friendly docker baseimages
  tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu:22.04 (for amd64)
    is present as a docker image for amd64
    is referenced in a `Vagrantfile` as a docker image
    is not created when I run `vagrant status`
    comes up when I run `vagrant up --no-provision`
    is now shown as running when I run `vagrant status` again
    accepts remote ssh commands via `vagrant ssh -c`
    can be provisioned with a shell script via `vagrant provision`
    is DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu / DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04 in lsb-release file
    is running under amd64 architecture
    can be stopped via `vagrant halt`
    can be destroyed via `vagrant destroy`

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In order to build the Vagrant Basebox "wrappers" around it:

$ bundle exec rake build:vagrant:baseboxes PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04

Run integration tests for the Vagrant Basebox:

$ bundle exec rake test:vagrant:baseboxes PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04
rspec --format doc --color --tty spec/basebox_spec.rb

vagrant base boxes for the docker baseimages
  tknerr/baseimage-ubuntu-22.04 (running on an amd64 host)
    is referenced in a `Vagrantfile` as a basebox
    can be imported via `vagrant box add`
    comes up via `vagrant up --provider docker`
    creates a docker container for amd64 architecture
    can be destroyed via `vagrant destroy`

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Publishing

This is currently done manually, and requires to log in to dockerhub / vagrantcloud interactively.

To publish the docker base image for Ubuntu 22.04 to dockerhub:

$ bundle exec rake publish:docker:base_images PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04

To publish the corresponding vagrant basebox to vagrantcloud:

$ bundle exec rake publish:vagrant:baseboxes PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04

Contributing

How to contribute?

1. fork this repo
2. create a new branch with your changes
3. submit a pull request

License

MIT - see the accompanying LICENSE file