sahara - a vagrant plugin that allows for a sandbox mode
Patrick Debois
It allows you to enable a sandbox mode within vagrant (think snapshot).
I found it useful during my development of recipes and creating os packages.
You can use it to try out new stuff, without having to resort to a vagrant destroy for easy rollback.
https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara
It's a first cut and I haven't got feedback if this works well within other people's environments.
I'd love to hear your feedback (does it work for you? any feature requests?)
Patrick
Typical usage would be :
- Enter sandbox mode:
vagrant sandbox on
- Do some stuff:
vagrant ssh
- If satisfied apply the changes:
vagrant sandbox commit
- If not satisfied you can rollback:
vagrant sandbox rollback
- To leave sandbox mod:
vagrant sandbox off
gareth rushgrove
> This morning I've created a first version of a gem called Sahara (inspired
> by cucumber-vhost and vmth )
>
> It allows you to enable a sandbox mode within vagrant (think snapshot).
>
> I found it useful during my development of recipes and creating os packages.
>
I happened to be building and testing some packages today and gave it
a go. Worked perfectly for me. Good job.
G
> You can use it to try out new stuff, without having to resort to a vagrant
> destroy for easy rollback.
>
> https://github.com/jedi4ever/sahara
>
> It's a first cut and I haven't got feedback if this works well within other
> people's environments.
> I'd love to hear your feedback (does it work for you? any feature requests?)
>
> Patrick
>
>
> Typical usage would be :
>
> Enter sandbox mode:
>
> vagrant sandbox on
>
> Do some stuff:
>
> vagrant ssh
>
> If satisfied apply the changes:
>
> vagrant sandbox commit
>
> If not satisfied you can rollback:
>
> vagrant sandbox rollback
>
> To leave sandbox mod:
>
> vagrant sandbox off
>
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Gareth Rushgrove
Web Geek
patrick.debois
P.S. Now what was that great Vagrant plugin you tweeted about ? :)
gareth rushgrove
> thanks for the feedback, glad it worked for you.
>
> P.S. Now what was that great Vagrant plugin you tweeted about ? :)
I haven't written it yet :)
Next couple of weeks hopefully I'll grab some time to finish it off
and make sure it's useful.
Gareth
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Christian Trabold
> This morning I've created a first version of a gem called Sahara
> You can use it to try out new stuff, without having to resort to a
> vagrant destroy for easy rollback.
> It's a first cut and I haven't got feedback if this works well within
> other people's environments.
> I'd love to hear your feedback (does it work for you? any feature requests?)
Patrick, it's awesome! No problems so far.
*My scenario*
I installed sahara while having a Vagrant already box running.
Sahara simply "hooked in" the running machine and I could "sandbox"
right away.
So I could use "vagrant sandbox on" without stopping the machine, do my
tests and "vagrant sandbox rollback" to restored the original state.
Exactly what I expected.
Great work! And again a very smart Gem name :)
*Feature requests*
none.
Instead your Gem could probably make this feature request on Vagrant
obsolete:
https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/143
Best
Christian
patrick.debois
> Exactly what I expected.
>
> Great work! And again a very smart Gem name :)
>
>
> *Feature requests*
>
> none.
>
> Instead your Gem could probably make this feature request on Vagrant
> obsolete:
>
> https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/143
>
I think it's probably a dilemma: the integration of the gem is done
through executing the commandline Virtualbox commands.
In Vagrant we are aiming more for API calls through virtualbox API and
in the future via Libvirt maybe.
The same goes for the veewee gem, and is probably the main reason for
not integrating it into vagrant code base.