Best practice on `npm login` during provision

[Giovanni Gaglione]

I need to install npm private packages during provision.

But they require `npm login` execution before installing private packages, otherwise npm will not find any priate package.

Because provision is not interactive, even if I run `npm login` during provision then I can't specify username and password.

So how to manage it?

I would avoid to put in the Vagrant machine filesystem files coming from the host - e.g. containing credentials or tokens - because I assume the host has no npm installed.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

Please have a look at packer.io (also hashicorp)

that will allow you create the box, and all the information can be in
a template file

And you can use that to create vagrant boxes.

Alvaro

[Giovanni Gaglione]

I see.

But I would like to avoid to learn a new tool and new documentation.

For the moment I fixed it manually logging in npm, and then exporting the machine as a new box.

This should work I think.