A warehouse to help you pack and ship your boxes!

Here, you'll find the templates you need for packer. Please do share your templates with others :)

git clone https://github.com/pierreozoux/packer-warehouse.git
cd packer-warehosue
packer build \
  -var-file=var-files/ubuntu/13.04.json \
  ubuntu.json

1. read the readme/distribtion.md file
2. if there are steps needed, do them
3. adapt variables in the var-files/ditribution/file.json
4. adapt variables in distribution.json
5. check the scripts in scripts/distribution/
6. validate with packer validate -var-file=var-files/ditribution/file.json distribution.json
7. build with packer build -var-file=var-files/ditribution/file.json distribution.json

It contains files that your VM will require during the build. It will be served by your workstation thou a temporary http server. You can access this server in the boot_command via 2 variables HTTPIP and HTTPPort. Please have a look to the ubuntu template or packer documentation for more explanations.

It contains the scripts used by the shell provisionner.

It contains the json files needed to customise the different templates.

For each distribution, if the code is not enough, there is a little readme to explain how to work with!

1. Fork it
2. Create your recipe branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some features')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-features)
5. Create new Pull Request