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Reputation: 4129

How to decrease the Vagrant package(.box) size?

I have created the vagrant box from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit desktop ISO file. The Vagrant box size is more than 1.5 GB.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3937

Answers (1)

tmatilai
tmatilai

Reputation: 4176

I would use (and modify if needed) some existing Packer template. They normally already have cleaning and disk minimizing implemented.

Anyway, the idea is to remove the unneeded packages and clean up large tmp files, apt cache, etc. And finally clean up the disk image by writing zeroes to it to make sure it compresses optimally. See for example this and this example from the Bento project.

Upvotes: 6

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