Vagrant Repositories

Deploying Vagrant Boxes

Deploying a package using the UI

To deploy a Vagrant box to Artifactory, select the repository to which you want to deploy your Vagrant box and click Deploy..

The Deploy dialog is displayed with your selected repository as the Target Repository and a default Target path. 

You can add properties you wish to attach to your box as parameters to the target path.

For example, to upload the box precise64-virtualbox-1.0.0.box, and specify that its name is precise64, with a provider of virtualbox and the version is 1.0.0, you would enter:

/precise64-virtualbox-1.0.0.box;box_name=precise64;box_provider=virtualbox;box_version=1.0.0

Set Me Up

You can also select your repository and click Set Me Up to view the cURL command you can use to upload your box.

Once you have deployed your Vagrant box, and Artifactory has recalculated the repository index, your repository should be organized as displayed below:

Deploying a package using Matrix Parameters

You can also deploy Vagrant boxes to Artifactory with an explicit URL using Matrix Parameters.

The URL is built similarly to the Target Path format as follows:

PUT "http://{Artifactory URL}/{vagrantRepoKey}/{vagrantBoxName.box};box_name={name};box_provider={provider};box_version={version}" 

For example, to upload the box precise64-virtualbox-1.0.0.box, and specify that it's name is precise64, with a provider of virtualbox and the version is 1.0.0, you would enter:

PUT "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/vagrant-local/precise64-virtualbox-1.0.0.box;box_name=precise64;box_provider=virtualbox;box_version=1.0.0"

Setting the Target Path

The Target Path can be anywhere in the repository, but it has to contain the 3 mandatory matrix parameters: box_name, box_provider and box_version and the file name must end with .box. The format is as follows:

PUT "http://{Artifactory URL}/{vagrantRepoKey}/{path/to/vagrantBoxName.box};box_name=[name];box_provider=[provider];box_version=[version]"

Provisioning Vagrant Boxes

Vagrant boxes are available through the following URL:

vagrant box add "http://{Artifactory URL}/api/vagrant/{vagrantRepoKey}/{boxName}"

For example, to provision a Vagrant box called precise64 from a repository called vagrant-local, you would construct it's name in the following manner:

vagrant box add "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/vagrant/vagrant-local/precise64"

You can select the repository from which you want to provision your box, and click Set Me Up to get the specific URL for the selected repository.

You can also, optionally, pass parameters to specify a specific box version or provider. For example:

vagrant box add "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/vagrant/vagrant-local/precise64 --provider virtualbox --box-version 1.0.0"

In addition, boxes can be provisioned using properties; this is useful when you want to download the latest box tagged by a specific property.
The properties query parameter value should comply with Using Properties in Deployment and Resolution. 

Examples:

vagrant box add "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/vagrant/vagrant-local/precise64?properties=box_version%2B=3.0.0"

Note the '%2B'  encoding on the command for the '+' symbol (which is for Mandatory properties: key+=value)  

The following example downloads a box with box_name=trusty64, box_version=3.0.0 from path="folder".

It uses an optional "path" property ( in addition to the mandatory properties) to specify the path where the box is stored in Artifactory. We will use this property for resolution of the box.

vagrant box add "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/vagrant/vagrant-local/trusty64?properties=box_version%2B=3.0.0;path%2B=folder"

Note the format for resolution of multiple properties: key1+=value1;key2+=value2....

Authenticated Access to Servers

If you need to access a secured Artifactory server that requires a username and password, you need to specify 2 environment variables:

1. ATLAS_TOKEN - A Base64 encoded string of the user credentials (formatted username:password).
2. VAGRANT_SERVER_URL - The base URL for the Artifactory server.

export ATLAS_TOKEN={token}
export VAGRANT_SERVER_URL=http://{Artifactory URL}/api/vagrant/{vagrantRepoKey}
For example:
export ATLAS_TOKEN=YWRtaW46QVAzWGhzWmlDU29NVmtaQ2dCZEY3XXXXXXXX
export VAGRANT_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:8081/api/vagrant/vagrant-local

$ curl -uadmin:password "http://localhost:8080/artifactory/api/vagrant/auth"

YWRtaW46QVAzWGhzWmlDU29NVmtaQ2dCZEY3XXXXXXXX

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