Packer-Warehouse

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 :)

QuickStart - Build Ubuntu vagrant box

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

QuickStart2 - Build another box

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

Explanations of directory structure

http

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.

scripts

It contains the scripts used by the shell provisionner.

var-files

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

readme

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

Contributing

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