Create a VirtualBox VM

• RAM >= 1024Mb
• Disk >= 20Gb
• Base Packages and default options from CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.iso
• Root Password: image_vm_2015 (if you change it update the hosts file)

Once the box has completed building login and edit ifcfg-eth0 to enable network on boot.

:::bash
sed -i 's/ONBOOT=no/ONBOOT=yes/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
ifup eth0

Next select Devices from the VirtualBox menu -> Network -> Network Settings -> Port Forwarding and add a port forwarding rule as follows:

Name: ssh Protocol: TCP Host IP: 127.0.0.1 Host Port: 2222 Guest IP: 10.0.2.15 Guest Port: 22

From your client pc you can now ssh to the CentOS base_vm as root. For the next set run the following commands on your client pc from the base of the GIT repo checkout:

:::bash
cp bash_vars.sh.sample bash_vars.sh
# Edit the bash_vars.sh script with your correct settings
source ./bash_vars.sh

python python-devel python-pip autoconf automake gcc

ansible-vault create playbooks/roles/ami/vars/certs.yml

• ec2_certs: | copy cert here

Credits:

• https://github.com/INSANEWORKS/centos-packer
• http://www.idevelopment.info/data/AWS/AWS_Tips/AWS_Management/AWS_10.shtml