A Packer template for creating an Arista vEOS-lab Vagrant box for the VMware provider.

Prerequisites

• Arista account
• Git
• VMware Fusion or Workstation
• Packer
• Vagrant
• Vagrant VMware plugin

Steps

NOTE: The following CLI commands can be executed in either Bash or PowerShell.

1. Clone this GitHub repo and cd into the directory.

git clone https://github.com/mweisel/veos-lab-vagrant-vmware
cd veos-lab-vagrant-vmware

2. Log in and download the vEOS-lab disk image from Arista.

3. Copy (and rename) the vEOS-lab disk image to the src directory.

cp $HOME/Downloads/vEOS-lab-4.23.0.1F.vmdk ./src/vEOS.vmdk

4. Packer build with the vEOS version as a variable to create the Vagrant box artifact.

packer build -var 'version=4.23.0.1F' arista-veos-lab.json

5. Add the Vagrant box.

vagrant box add --provider vmware_desktop --name arista-veos-4.23.0.1F ./builds/veos-lab-4.23.0.1F-vmware.box

6. Vagrant Up!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details