docker use layers, vagrant doesn't

so, if you first vagrant up, you have

vagrant provision
vagrant reload --provision
vagrant up --provision
etc,

in my particular use case, some commands like update rpms, I can run them
more than one, nothing happen

others, I just include some checks,

example, if the user exits, then all good, if not, then create.. etc

for software install, i check, if the software is installed say
/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.1/dbhome_1/bin exits.. then.. skip

etc.



On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Kevin Schumacher <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using the hashicorp/precise64 box, and using the Docker provisioner.
>
> I understand that I can issue some print statements (and am doing that).
>
> When developing dockerfiles, each step is cached so that if there is an
> error, you can essentially fix the error in the Dockerfile and more or less
> resume. Vagrant doesn't do something similar, does it?
>
> I see now that if I just do a `vagrant provision` it starts to do the
> provision steps. So if the provision fails after an initial vagrant up, I
> can just edit the commands to the provisioner, issue a `vagrant provision`,
> and it will restart with the docker provisioner (assuming I don't have any
> other provisioners set up). As long as I make sure the commands the
> provisioner issues can be run multiple times safely, then this works for
> me. This is helpful information. Previously I thought I had to do a vagrant
> destroy && vagrant up to try again (so it would configure the whole VM
> again).
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:18:51 PM UTC-4, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Vagrant will automate what you tell Vagrant to automate.
>>
>> So, what you should think is, what to do fi something change or you go
>> half way trough..
>>
>> If a end user was using your Vagrantfile, then he should be able to do
>> vagrant destroy, vagrant up and get a working environment.
>>
>> In your particular case, you want to be able to troubleshoot, then, you
>> can use puts "running this..." before eachs ection so yoiu can follow what
>> is doing..
>>
>> if you use scripts, make sure, the script can be called more than once
>> and it won't break anything.. so you can do vagrant provision and should
>> skip what did and continue.
>>
>>
>> What OS is the host? the docker is inside a Vagran'ts managed vm?
>>
>> Are you using docker provisioner os just shell provisioner to call
>> vagrant commands?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Kevin Schumacher <kevinmichae...@gmail.
>> com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am very new to vagrant, and have a couple of questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Is there a way to resume a failed provisioning?
>>> 2. Is there a way to "step through" a vagrantfile?
>>>
>>> For background:
>>>
>>> I am trying to use Vagrant for quick "one click" setup of a development
>>> infrastructure environment when new people join the team. We have an
>>> unfortunately complicated stack, and have previously been utilizing Docker
>>> and dockerfiles to keep everyone's development environments in sync.
>>>
>>> I am hoping to be able to utilize the work put into creating the
>>> dockerfiles with Vagrant, and to be able to have someone new just "vagrant
>>> up" and provision the full stack in Docker containers (this would lower the
>>> barriers to entry -- the new team member would not have to understand
>>> immediately how to set up the stack, install docker, how the various parts
>>> of the stack are related, etc. before being able to contribute some code to
>>> the web app on top of the stack)
>>>
>>> However, I am finding that troubleshooting failures during provision is
>>> slow and painful. Earlier today I found that a dockerfile no longer worked
>>> because of a remote file which moved, which was causing my provision to
>>> fail.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kevin
>>>
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