I'm building VirtualBox machines using Packer and the chef-solo provisioner. Is there a way to re-run chef from within the VM as recipes are updated without needing to re-run packer build?
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Ok, figured it out. It looks like packer sets up everything I need in packer-chef-solo. I needed to manually copy in the updated recipes, and then run the same command packer originally ran, sudo chef-solo --no-color -c /tmp/packer-chef-solo/solo.rb -j /tmp/packer-chef-solo/node.json.
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It is possible to use a virtulbox.box file as an input for packer builds.
Use one packerbase.json which does your online boot and installs your basic packages and then have a packerlatest.json that build using packerbase.json as a starting point.
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