alfresco-spk as a Vagrant plugin

[maoo]

Package and ship alfresco-spk as a Vagrant plugin; it must be possible to install it using the command

vagrant plugin install vagrant-alfresco-spk

Plugin can be configured using the same syntax in Vagrantfile:

if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-alfresco-spk")
  config.alfrescospk.stack_template_url = "file://#{ENV['PWD']}/stack-templates/clustered-enterprise.json"
  #TODO - add syntax for instance template overlays
end

[maoo]

Here's a good start https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/plugins/development-basics.html

[maoo]

@makuk66 - any input on this? You think it would be a good idea?

[makuk66]

Not sure. Anything that makes it easy sounds good to me, but ever more layers of abstraction might be harder to understand.

My use-case is that I'm trying to put together an all-in-one (including DB) docker image to test an alfresco client with some automated tests. I want to just fire up the image, load some data, read it back out again, and kill the image; without multi-container complexity. And I'd like to be able to update it quickly and easily as newer version are released. I'm not sure if alfresco-psk is the best way to get there, or if I'm better off with just a suitable Dockerfile. I tried https://github.com/makuk66/docker-alfresco which gets there, but takes a long time to start up: 6min as-is, which I could get down to 3.5, but I want <1, and the run-time installation prevents that. Now I'm trying alfresco-psk, but haven't succeeded yet; and having to install vagrant/python pre-requisites for packer are a little bit of a nuisance.