This is a Vagrant box that can serve as a sensible base to install the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). This box is based on Centos 7 (https://atlas.hashicorp.com/centos/boxes/7) and includes the below modifications, consistent with Hortonworks documentation (http://docs.hortonworks.com/)

• installation of the following packages
  • scp
  • curl
  • unzip
  • tar
  • wget
  • ntp
  • openssl-devel
  • gcc (required for VirtualBox Guest Additions)
  • kernel-devel (required for VirtualBox Guest Additions)
• enabling yum fastcache
• update all yum packages and clean yum history
• enabling and starting ntp
• disabling firewalld
• disabling transparent huge pages
• disabling selinux
• updating timezone to New York
• increasing ulimit
• updating umask

To run, execute the following

vagrant init timveil/centos7-hdp-base; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

The latest release is v1.0.11. For detailed release information see https://atlas.hashicorp.com/timveil/boxes/centos7-hdp-base

Before packaging box, make sure to change both vagrant and root password to vagrant

sudo su -

# change root password
passwd 

# change vagrant password
passwd vagrant

To package and deploy see https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-create-a-vagrant-base-box-from-an-existing-one

vagrant package --output centos7-hdp-base.box
vagrant box add centos7-hdp-base centos7-hdp-base.box --force