Vagrant Box Add fails on windows

[kheiligh]

I've gotten the same problem with Vagrant v. 1.9 and 2.0.1 - running the command

vagrant box add concourse/lite --box-version $(cat VERSION)

gives me this message & error:

Found VERSION file, using concourse/lite version 3.2.1
==> box: Box file was not detected as metadata. Adding it directly...
You specified a box version constraint with a direct box file
path. Box version constraints only work with boxes from Vagrant
Cloud or a custom box host. Please remove the version constraint
and try again.

so I can't get the vagrant box even running.

[drnic]

I'm hoping we can move everyone to the bosh create-env instructions. They are pretty lovely; and start to introduce you to using BOSH to maintain Concourse later on.

Perhaps you can try installing bosh via https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2.html instructions.

Then try deploying Concourse to Virtualbox using:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial/develop/manifests/concourse-lite.yml
bosh create-env manifests/concourse-lite.yml --state tmp/state.json

If this works, please follow along with the upgraded tutorials at https://concoursetutorial.com/ (will make this more public soon once I've finished upgrading tutorial instructions) and let me know.

If you have issues, then please report them and we'll get them fixed for you!

[choumarin]

Hi,
Just wanted to point out that bosh create-env manifests/concourse-lite.yml --state tmp/state.json doesn't work on Windows, getting the following error:

Extracting release '.bosh\downloads\960545597eaba699eed28d96574acd5c2434a40f-361d4ca59030ec1af5f5ad61a31a9c0aa593e819':
  Extracting release:
    Shelling out to tar:
      Running command: 'powershell tar --no-same-owner -xzf .bosh\downloads\960545597eaba699eed28d96574acd5c2434a40f-361d4ca59030ec1af5f5ad61a31a9c0aa593e819 -C .bosh\installations\1adfc68f-2a0a-408f-5756-c89f3f71a6a5\tmp\bosh-release395705526', stdout: '', stderr: '/cygdrive/c/Numerical Innovations/DFM Now V7/bin/tar: .bosh\\installations\001adfc68f-2a0a-408f-5756-c89f3f71a6a5\tmp\bosh-release395705526: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
/cygdrive/c/Numerical Innovations/DFM Now V7/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
stdout: Broken pipe

gzip: ':
        exit status 1

Exit code 1

[drnic]

I'm sorry I've moved away from the vagrant up instructions that worked for windows. I was hoping the `bosh create-env` instructions would work for Windows but didn't get out my Windows laptop to check. I might continue pursuing the bosh approach for Windows to drive fixes to bosh-cli + bucc (which also is not for windows). If I fail, I'll return to the vagrant up; but I don't have a solution to adding credhub/credentials via vagrant so I worry we lose the Windows people later on. But I guess that's better than losing them at the start :)

[choumarin]

I found the best way to get started was using docker using the instructions here: https://concourse.ci/docker-repository.html
Of course a little adaptation of the instructions were necessary for windows, but it was very straight-forward.

[drnic]

@choumarin do you remember what adaptation of the instructions were required? I'm happy to put something into the tutorial to help Windows people.

[avoidik]

@drnic you might find this useful
https://github.com/avoidik/compose_concourse

[drnic]

Since https://github.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial/releases/tag/v3.10.0 we're moving towards docker-compose up for initial deployment, so I'll close this issue for now.