Linus' Kitchen v0.6 Release

Linus' Kitchen v0.6 is a maintenance release with a few bugfixes and improvements.

Download the pre-built .ova image here:
https://tkndevpacks.blob.core.windows.net/developer-vms/linus-kitchen-v0.6.0_vmware.ova

Bugfixes and Improvements (see CHANGELOG):
https://github.com/tknerr/linus-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#06-may-9-2019

Bugfixes:

• ensure correct version of docker cli and daemon are installed (see PR #88)
• fix incorrect line endings in Git PS1 when provisioned from Windows host (see PR #86)
• fix broken status indication in Git PS1 prompt (see PR #83)
• fix broken "Sofware Updater" by disabling vagrant-cachier when packaging the VM (see PR #81)
• fix broken apt-get update due to duplicate definition of docker apt sources (see PR #80)

Improvements:

• remove docker-in-docker related workarounds no longer needed with CircleCI 2.0 (see PR #87)
• disable vagrant-cachier caching by default and allow to opt-in instead (see PR #85)
• install xfreerdp so that we can use vagrant rdp with Windows VMs (see PR #84)
• improve README regarding regional settings and input languages (see PR #82)
• make chef run fully idempotent again (see PR #79)

Linus' Kitchen v0.5 Release

Linus' Kitchen v0.5 is features a basebox update to a more recent version of fasmat/ubuntu1804-desktop as well as a complete toolchain update.

Download link for pre-built VMWare .ova image (3.8GB):

• https://tkndevpacks.blob.core.windows.net/developer-vms/linus-kitchen-v0.5.0_vmware.ova

Now included are:

• Vagrant 2.2.4
• VirtualBox 6.0.6
• ChefDK 3.9.0
• Docker 18.09.5
• Ansible 2.7.10
• Ansible related tools:
  • ansible-lint 4.1.0
  • testinfra 1.19.0
  • molecule 2.20.1
• vscode 1.33.1

Removed tools:

• atom has been removed
• outdated / deprecated vagrant plugins have been removed

For more details see:
https://github.com/tknerr/linus-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#05-apr-29-2019

Linus' Kitchen v0.4 Release

Linus Kitchen v0.4 was released in November 2018 (thanks @fasmat for all the updates!)

Basebox update:

• the basebox has been updated to Ubuntu Bionic (18.04)

Tool updates:

• update to ChefDK v3.4.23
• update to Vagrant v2.2.0
• update to Atom v1.32.2
• update to Docker v18.06.1
• update to Packer v1.3.2
• update to VirtualBox v5.2.22
• update to molecule v2.19.0
• update to testinfra v1.16.0

For more details see:
https://github.com/tknerr/linus-kitchen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#04-nov-20-2018

Linus' Kitchen v0.3 Release

Third release of Linus' Kitchen, a developer VM for hacking with Chef, Ansible (new) Vagrant, Docker & Co.

Download:

• linus-kitchen-v0.3_vmware.ova (VMware .ova image, 3GB download size)

The v0.3 release adds an Ansible toolchain as an alternative to the Chef toolchain, and updates the most of the tools to their latest version.

New tools (Ansible toolchain):

• Ansible v2.3.0.0
• ansible-lint v3.14.2
• testinfra v1.6.2
• molecule v2.0.0.rc5

Updated tools:

• ChefDK v1.4.3
• Vagrant v1.9.5
• Docker v17.05.0-ce
• Atom Editor v1.17.1 + Plugins
• VirtualBox v5.1.22

See the v0.3 CHANGELOG for the full list of changes and improvements.

Linus' Kitchen v0.2 Release

Second release of Linus' Kitchen, a developer VM for hacking with Chef, Vagrant, Docker & Co.

Download:

• linus-kitchen-v0.2_vmware.ova (VMware .ova image, 3GB download size)

Major changes:

• Linus Kitchen now runs on Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop
• published as a VMware Image, so we can run VirtualBox VMs inside it
• added VirtualBox and using it as the default provider for Vagrant
• the provisioning now creates a dedicated user account (login: "user" / "user")
• many many small improvements to provide a much better user experience

Major tool updates:

• ChefDK 1.3.40
• Vagrant 1.9.3
• Docker 17.04.0-ce
• Atom Editor 1.15.0
• VirtualBox 5.1.18 (new)
• Packer 1.0.0 (new)

See the v0.2 CHANGELOG for the full list of changes and improvements.

Linus' Kitchen v0.1 Release

First released version of Linus' Kitchen, an Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop based developer VM for hacking with Chef, Vagrant, Docker & Co:

• either git checkout v0.1 and then vagrant up
• or use the prebuilt linus-kitchen-v0.1.ova image (2.4 GB download size)

Included in this release:

• ChefDK 0.13.21
• Vagrant 1.8.1
• Docker 1.11
• Git 1.9
• Atom Editor 1.7.3

See the README for more details.