Best solutions for building and publishing Vagrant boxes

[Jason Hsu]

I'd like to automatically build and publish Vagrant boxes on a schedule. I already use continuous integration tools (like GitLab CI and Travis CI) for automatically building and publishing Docker images. Unfortunately, Vagrant doesn't work within Docker containers (which is what CI services rely on).

Would Google Cloud be a good solution?  Can you give me some idea on how much this would cost?

Would I be better off just dedicating a Raspberry Pi or a used laptop PC for this?  Depending on the monthly cost of Google Cloud, I'm guessing that I may be better off just dedicating a physical machine of my own for this.

[Kamelia Yousofibarforoush]

Hello Jason,

We understand that you would like to build and publish Vagrant boxes on a schedule using GCP.

1- Would Google Cloud be a good solution

2- Would I be better off just dedicating a Raspberry Pi or a used laptop PC for this?  Depending on the monthly cost of Google Cloud, I'm guessing that I may be better off just dedicating a physical machine of my own for this?

I couldn't find any official GCP documentation about your use case described above. Please contact Vagrant boxes community[1] to help assist you.

3- Can you give me some idea on how much this would cost?

Depends on GCP used resources. Find more details about our pricing visiting the following link [2]. You can also use GCP Pricing Calculator to help you have an estimation[3]. 

[1] https://www.vagrantup.com/community.html

[2]https://cloud.google.com/pricing/

[3]https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/