To get going, you need to first install Vagrant and Oracle Virtual Box, as discussed in many places including my article. Note that the JDK7 module is copied from Edwin’s Puppet module. You will find the sources – Vagrant and Puppet scripts – in this GutHub repository. Yet it is a useful building block for me. Once you are somewhat versed in Vagrant and Puppet, this is almost the simplest thing to do. My objective as stated at the beginning of this article is actually not very demanding at all.

I have been introduced to both tools – that happen to work together very well – by Edwin Biemond (formerly of AMIS and currently of Oracle Corporation), who has done a ton of work and donated his findings to the community through his blog ( ) and his many GitHub contributions ( ). In the past I have written a bit on both Vagrant – an open source product that allows us to script the creation of virtual machine images with Virtual Box (as well as Docker containers and AWS machine images) – and on Puppet – another open source project that supports configuring environments based on declarative descriptions of the desired end state. An environment that I can easily create, start and also stop and remove. I want an isolated environment in which to run said software. Usually this software runs best on Linux (even though my laptop still boots in Windows7). In many occasions this is software from Oracle, frequently still in beta. I frequently want to try out new software. The image should support Puppet and Git and must have a JDK installed. My objective in this article: create generally reusable Linux 64 bit (Ubuntu 14.0.4 with Desktop) Virtual Box Image – based on Vagrant and Puppet as to stamp out multiple copies of the image.

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