An Admin-API based Vagrant provider: possible/advisable?

[chris....@gmail.com]

I just discovered Qubes OS--thanks for the great work! In reading through the docs, I found Qubes OS's upcoming Admin API:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/06/27/qubes-admin-api/

I wonder, does the new Admin API provide the functionality required to implement a Vagrant provider? Does anyone know, off-hand, if v1.0 of Qubes OS's Admin API is/will be missing any features that a provider implementer would need?

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/plugins/providers.html

More, though, I'm still wrapping my head around Qubes OS's compartmentalization model and wonder, do I correctly understand the intent of the API? Does the Admin API offer a good/advisable path to using Vagrant in Qubes OS?

Finally, if this is a workable idea, I wonder if a Vagrant driver is already in progress?

Thanks in advance.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:44:31PM -0700, chris....@gmail.com wrote:
> I just discovered Qubes OS--thanks for the great work! In reading through the docs, I found Qubes OS's upcoming Admin API:
>
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/06/27/qubes-admin-api/
>
> I wonder, does the new Admin API provide the functionality required to implement a Vagrant provider? Does anyone know, off-hand, if v1.0 of Qubes OS's Admin API is/will be missing any features that a provider implementer would need?
>
> https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/plugins/providers.html

I don't see there details what really provider needs to provide, besides
vague description of "actions": "It is the secret sauce that makes
providers do the magic they do.". There is also "The full list of
actions requested is listed in the comments of that method on the
superclass.", but I haven't found it anywhere.

Anyway, I'd expect this is a perfect fit for Admin API, purpose of both
mechanisms is very similar and it should be possible to translate from
one to another.

> More, though, I'm still wrapping my head around Qubes OS's compartmentalization model and wonder, do I correctly understand the intent of the API? Does the Admin API offer a good/advisable path to using Vagrant in Qubes OS?
>
> Finally, if this is a workable idea, I wonder if a Vagrant driver is already in progress?

I'm not aware of any. But if there is some IMO we should promote it!

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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