sandbox-creator

A next generation of https://gitlab.ics.muni.cz/KYPO-content/KYPO-Creator

generate.py is a python program that generates a vagrant source file from a definition in yaml.

Usage:

1. Clone the project.
2. Navigate to the project folder.
3. Type $ python generate.py yaml_file.yaml > Vagrantfile. There is a test yaml file in the repository called test.yaml.
4. Run $ vagrant up

Implemented attribute types:

• all simple vagrant attributes
• flavors, memory, cpus
• a simple network (assigning ip and netmask to a device)

Not implemented yet:

• VirtualBox and OpenStack attributes
• other network configuration

Known issues:

• after running on Windows the output may contain invalid multibyte chars

Flavors

Flavors provide a quick way to choose hardware specs (like number of cpus and memory) for a virtual machine. These attributes can also be specified separately by memory and cpus. The values of memory and/or cpus always override the values specified in the flavor.

Supported flavors: