chef/bento resource
Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
89/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 75
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 76
- age_days: 5292
- days_rel: 86
- days_push: 26
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
4445 stars · 1116 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Bento is a collection of Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant base boxes across many operating systems and virtualization providers. It also publishes prebuilt boxes to Vagrant Cloud that serve as defaults for kitchen-vagrant.
Use cases
- build a minimal ubuntu vagrant box with packer
- create baseboxes for test-kitchen
- generate vagrant boxes for virtualbox and vmware
- build arm64 vagrant boxes on apple silicon
- customize a centos or debian box image with packer variables
- use prebuilt bento boxes in a Vagrantfile
When to choose
- you need reproducible, minimal Vagrant base boxes for testing
- you use Test Kitchen with kitchen-vagrant and want consistent boxes
- you need boxes across many OSes and hypervisors including arm64
When to avoid
- you build cloud images for AWS/Azure rather than local Vagrant boxes
- you need container images instead of full VMs
- you want a GUI-driven VM management tool
Facets
infra-config · maturity active
infrastructure-as-code developer-tools developer-tools self-hosted windows cross-platform packer-templates vagrant-baseboxes virtualbox vmware parallels qemu hyper-v test-kitchen virtualization devops linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/chef/bento · fetched 2026-08-28 · 26caf0f2f262
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| chef/bento | main | 89 |
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