[jakduch]

Fixes #903

What changed

• use local names for the built-in CentOS Stream 9/10 boxes, so Vagrant does not treat them as Vagrant Cloud shorthand
• disable registry update checks for these direct boxes
• use the official cloud.centos.org latest download aliases instead of a dated ODCS compose pin
• preserve the configuration of other box names

Why

The previous pinned 20260930.0 compose was removed from ODCS. The refreshed CI matrix failed with HTTP 404 during vagrant up, before any deployment tests could run. A dated compose URL is not a permanent archive. Using the maintained official alias avoids that expired pin while keeping Vagrant Cloud metadata out of this path.

The alias is intentionally mutable. This does not claim reproducible image pinning or eliminate failures of the CentOS download service itself.

Verification

• both official Stream 9 and Stream 10 URLs returned HTTP 200 to HEAD requests; no images were downloaded locally
• the isolated regression failed against the old pin and passed after the change: two tests, including both CentOS streams and an unchanged custom Debian box
• Ruby syntax and diff checks passed
• CI's Vagrant Configuration job runs the same documented command:

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests/unit -p vagrant_box_test.py -v

The test evaluates the real Vagrantfile with configuration execution stubbed; it does not start Vagrant or any VM. Full deployment validation remains with the restarted CI matrix.

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📝 Walkthrough

The Vagrantfile adds CentOS Stream 9 and 10 compose mappings and a shared box-selection helper. Built-in and user-defined VMs now pass their selected boxes to that helper.

Changes: Vagrant box selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure selected boxes Vagrantfile	set_box assigns non-CentOS boxes directly. For mapped CentOS Stream boxes, it sets a local box name, disables update checks, and configures two image URLs.
Apply box selection to VMs Vagrantfile	The four built-in VMs and user-defined VMs now pass their selected boxes to set_box.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: evgeni

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cd74b

CentOS Stream VM provisioning can fail despite a working fallback image. Correct the URL selection before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cd74b

The change affects developer VM base-image selection and reuse. No new credential authority or privilege escalation is demonstrated, but image-cache recovery and existing-VM rollback behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A compromised selected image could affect developer VMs created from that image, including all four built-in roles and matching custom VMs. The existing repository share at /vagrant creates a potential guest-to-workspace impact path; effective filesystem permissions and cache exposure are not established. No production or tenant-wide expansion is demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Local configuration selects a box that Vagrant consumes as a guest base image. Recognized Stream selections cannot inject arbitrary URL hosts through this helper: the hosts and compose mapping are fixed, and HTTPS is configured. The existing direct-assignment path for other box names remains unchanged.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The configuration no longer requests box update checks for matching Stream images. Freshness and recovery assurance consequently require an update or rebuild process outside this helper; the reviewed evidence does not establish that process or prove that an insecure cached image would remain in use.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider recording verifiable artifact identities for the candidate images and documenting refresh, rebuild, and rollback procedures for the new local aliases, including interrupted downloads and existing VMs. This is a hardening proposal, not an observed vulnerability.

Pre-merge checks: 5

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Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: avoiding registry metadata for CentOS Vagrant boxes.
Description check		The description directly explains the CentOS box URL changes, registry update behavior, motivation, and verification steps. It matches the changeset.

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Review comments at @Vagrantfile:
- Line 24: Update the `vm.box_url` assignment to avoid providing multiple URLs,
since Vagrant’s metadata probe can fail on the unreachable `cloud.centos.org`
URL before trying the ODCS URL. Use the reachable ODCS URL directly, or
implement fallback outside the URL array so the working URL is selected before
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[jakduch]

The direct ODCS boxes are working: the current matrix reached and completed Start VMs in multiple Stream 9 and 10 jobs. The two failures so far happen later in Forklift's resize-disk provisioner because the CentOS BaseOS mirror returned inconsistent metadata while installing cloud-utils-growpart. I opened theforeman/forklift#1994 to add bounded retries for that shared setup step.

[jakduch]

The updated matrix confirms that the direct ODCS URLs fix the Vagrant box
startup. The jobs now get past Start VMs on both Stream 9 and Stream 10.

The remaining failures are two independent downstream problems:

• Stream 9 hits a transient CentOS BaseOS metadata checksum mismatch while
  Forklift installs cloud-utils-growpart. I added retries in
  Fixes #1993 - Retry resize disk package installs forklift#1994; its CI is green.
• Stream 10 reaches the Pulp database migration, where the current
  quay.io/foreman/pulp:foreman-nightly image cannot import psycopg because
  libpq is missing. I reproduced that directly against the published image
  and opened Fixes #115 - Install libpq for psycopg runtime pulp-oci-images#116 with a
  build-time and integration smoke test.

So the original Vagrant registry failure is resolved here. I will rerun the
matrix after the downstream image/forklift fixes are available.

[arvind4501]

centos registry issues seems to be fixed now, the vagrant images exists there :)

[jakduch]

The refreshed matrix exposed an expired ODCS compose pin: the September image now returns 404 before any VM starts. Fixed in dba5028 by keeping local box names but using the maintained official latest aliases. Both Stream 9/10 URLs returned HTTP 200 to HEAD requests, without downloading images locally. The new isolated regression reproduced the old failure and passes after the fix; CI runs the same documented command. Updated #903 to explain that dated compose artifacts are not retained indefinitely.