# Goodbye, Cumulus Community Vagrant Boxes

DevFeed: [Goodbye, Cumulus Community Vagrant Boxes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/goodbye-cumulus-community-vagrant-boxes-11134.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/02/goodbye-cumulus-community/>)

Published: 2025-02-19T07:01:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vagrant.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [VXLAN](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vxlan.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>)

Tags: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>), [vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vagrant.md>), [vxlan](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vxlan.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes integration-test failures while reviewing a VXLAN on Cumulus Linux pull request. The failures were traced to Vagrant SSH authentication problems caused by password expiration in Cumulus Community virtual machines. It concludes that newer boxes remain affected, older boxes are outdated, and the Cumulus containers project is no longer maintained.

## Source excerpt

Last Monday, I decided to review and merge the "VXLAN on Cumulus Linux 5.x with NVUE" pull request. I usually run integration tests on the modified code to catch any remaining gremlins, but this time, all the integration tests started failing during the VM creation phase. I was completely weirded out, considering everything worked a week ago. Fortunately, Vagrant debugging is pretty good1 and I was quickly able to pinpoint the issue (full printout): Read more ...