Build Vagrant boxes with GitHub

[mamercad]

Fixes #63;

Update: the official StackStorm boxes are built: https://app.vagrantup.com/stackstorm/boxes/st2/

Still thinking about a few things.

[mamercad]

@armab What's the motivation behind "vagrant-cloud-standalone" versus using vagrant-cloud?

[arm4b]

See https://github.com/armab/packer-post-processor-vagrant-cloud-standalone#description

The idea is to split the build stage (CI) vs publish stage (CD) which was not possible with the original plugin.

We want to build the box on PRs & merges and save it as a downloadable CircleCI artifact, but publish the box to Vagrant Cloud and upload the image to GH releases only on new git tag/release. Split those stages into a dedicated steps.

[mamercad]

See https://github.com/armab/packer-post-processor-vagrant-cloud-standalone#description

The idea is to split the build stage (CI) vs publish stage (CD) which was not possible with the original plugin.

We want to build the box on PRs & merges and save it as a downloadable CircleCI artifact, but publish the box to Vagrant Cloud and upload the image to GH releases only on new git tag/release. Split those stages into a dedicated steps.

Mostly getting there are this point (not ready to open the PR yet), thoughts on building, in addition to the most recent tag, building boxes for a few previous tags, too?

[mamercad]

See https://github.com/armab/packer-post-processor-vagrant-cloud-standalone#description
The idea is to split the build stage (CI) vs publish stage (CD) which was not possible with the original plugin.
We want to build the box on PRs & merges and save it as a downloadable CircleCI artifact, but publish the box to Vagrant Cloud and upload the image to GH releases only on new git tag/release. Split those stages into a dedicated steps.

Mostly getting there are this point (not ready to open the PR yet), thoughts on building, in addition to the most recent tag, building boxes for a few previous tags, too?

Nice, the three most recent versions built.

[arm4b]

Nice work to get it working first! 👍
I understand it was quite a rabbit hole! 🐰

Left some questions and comments.
And yeah, we definitely don't need the version matrix, just build the latest one.

[mamercad]

Nice work to get it working first! 👍 I understand it was quite a rabbit hole! 🐰

Left some questions and comments. And yeah, we definitely don't need the version matrix, just build the latest one.

Thanks, as always, for the review @armab !

[mamercad]

I think we're ready ... here's the most recent build and here's the most recent publish. Here's the box published to the Vagrant Cloud. Pull request boxes are named (almost) the same (and stored as GH Artifacts for a day, which is configurable), the exception in the naming is that I'm taking on "-{{ pull request number }}-{{ run number }}".

[cognifloyd]

One minor issue: we're trying to remove links to the forum whenever we can. Since your already editing this, could you adjust the links?

Otherwise, LGTM. It's wonderful to finally have this fixed!

Note: We will need to update other the release instructions and probably the st2cicd workflows for release after this gets merged.

[arm4b]

Thanks for the easier to read diff and all the fixes!

Looks really clean, just left a few minor comments.
As a final step, I'll also need to run it before merging as a Packer/Vagrant build can give surprises during the long builds/runs and different environments.

Please also update the Changelog. Besides that, Massive work! 💯

[arm4b]

Builds well locally! 👍

Just two things missing:

• upload .ova instead of .box to GH Releases
• A changelog record for this

[mamercad]

Builds well locally! 👍

Just two things missing:

• upload .ova instead of .box to GH Releases
• A changelog record for this

Builds well locally! 👍

Just two things missing:

• upload .ova instead of .box to GH Releases
• A changelog record for this

Yep, working on it :loading:

[arm4b]

Great work, Thanks a lot!

[mamercad]

Great work, Thanks a lot!

No worries, thanks for the cleanup ❤️

[mamercad]

Great work, Thanks a lot!

No worries, thanks for the cleanup ❤️

...also, I keep forgetting, this secret needs to be defined.