Is it possible for Vagrant to use an OS .ISO install image directly/or create a Vagrant box from an ISO on the fly?

Question

Is it possible to automate the creation of a Vagrant .box file for an OS install, from the original ISO?

To me, this is a significant gap in the end-to-end automation of

Answer 1

I think VeeWee provides a great mechanism for preparing a Vagrant box from an ISO:

https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee

It already provides a lot of out-of-the-box templates for most distributions, which you can customize if required (although this is often not needed). Alternatively you can create your own definitions.

Alternatively you can use Packer:

https://packer.io/

Which is produced by the same company that makes Vagrant, so it has fairly good integration. Packer itself doesn't provided sample templates I believe, but you can use the ones Puppet Labs uses for its own testing purposes if you like:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-packer

This can be used as a solid base for your own templates and modified to taste, or you can raise a PR on the project to contribute back if desired.