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Bruno Mahé commented on BIGTOP-1072:
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Nevermind, I should have read your previous comments.

> Vagrant scripts for spinning up and "hydrating" bigtop vms 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIGTOP-1072
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1072
>             Project: Bigtop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: jay vyas
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: BIGTOP-1072.1.patch
>
>
> Vagrant is a tool that spins up VMs for you and destroys them.  The only real 
> requirement it has is that a "base box" has been created before hand.   
> At that point, you can install the VM using different provider hosts  
> (kvm,virtualbox,etc...).
> The goal of vagrant is to unify VM environments for developers with 
> production env.  This is very similar to what bigtop aims at providing.   
> Vagrant adds host/guest shared directories, static ips, and allthe other 
> goodies that one has to configure  manually, into vm provisioning in a vendor 
> neutral fashion: Essentially giving a declarative API to VM creation. 
> I would like to suggest that bigtop provides / maintains vagrant startup 
> scripts that layer hadoop tools on top of a "base box" vm.  This is slightly 
> different than the current strategy which creates a full blown VM with hadoop 
> on it.  The vagrant approach provides a means for more developer 
> customization of the vm artifacts being used without adding any real overhead 
> (other than having vagrant installed and understanding the very simply 
> vagrant recipe for creating a vm).   
> Probably in the begining this could be complimentary to the boxgrinder 
> created VMs, and over time, maybe people would migrated to using the vagrant 
> provisioned VMs as they become more popular and use of vagrant gets more 
> common in the community. 



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