This box is an Ubuntu 16.04 VM meant for running development binaries that require a VMX. For example, the toolbox, VIC and Kubernetes vSphere Cloud Provider include code that must run on an ESXi VM. This script makes it simple to run your laptop/desktop local binaries on such a VM.
This script is a fork of the VIC devbox, without a Vagrant file or provisioning beyond the bento box itself.
Example deployment to ESX:
% export GOVC_URL=Administrator@vsphere.local:password@vcenter-hostname
% ./create.sh
Deploying to VMware vCenter Server 6.7.0 build-8170161 @ vcenter-hostname...
Converting vagrant box for use with ESXi...
Creating disk 'ubuntu-16.04.vmdk'
Convert: 100% done.
Virtual disk conversion successful.
Importing vmdk to datastore datastore1...
[08-05-18 13:43:33] Uploading ubuntu-16.04.vmdk... OK
Creating VM dougm-ubuntu-16.04...
Powering on VirtualMachine:7... OK
# For SSH access:
% ssh-add ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
% ssh vagrant@10.118.66.252
# To NFS export $GOPATH on this host:
% echo "$GOPATH 10.118.66.252(rw,no_subtree_check,sync,all_squash,anonuid=$UID,anongid=$UID)" | sudo tee -a /etc/exports
% sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart
# To NFS mount $GOPATH in the VM:
% ssh vagrant@10.118.66.252 sudo mkdir -p $GOPATH
% ssh vagrant@10.118.66.252 sudo mount 10.118.67.103:$GOPATH $GOPATHSome example use cases for devbox...
As an alternative to the CoreOS based toolbox-test.sh, the toolbox can be run on devbox like so:
% go install github.com/vmware/govmomi/toolbox/toolbox
% ip=$(govc vm.ip -esxcli "$USER-ubuntu-16.04")
% ssh vagrant@$ip sudo service open-vm-tools stop
% ssh vagrant@$ip $GOPATH/bin/toolbox -toolbox.traceAs an alternative to the VIC devbox.
This script builds kubectl and hyperkube locally, generates a Kubernetes cloud provider config for vSphere and runs kubernetes/hack/local-up-cluster.sh from inside the devbox VM:
% ./vcp-local-up-cluster.sh