Packer::Remote

This is a tool to use Packer on the remote server. This starts to build image(s) when this get http request.

The build process is below.

Checkout from repository.
Run packer build command.

Build Status

Requrement

Ruby

1.9.3
2.0.0

Packer

You need install Packer before use this tool.

Packer|iInstallaion

VCS

paker-remote support git only now.

Installation

Download gem file from here.
Install it yourself as:

$ gem install packer-remote.1.0.0.gem

Usage

1. Create Packer configuration

$ mkdir packer-sample
$ vi packer.json

A configuration sample is below.

{
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "region": "us-west-2",
    "source_ami": "ami-de0d9eb7",
    "instance_type": "t1.micro",
    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",
    "ssh_timeout": "5m",
    "ami_name": "Packer-{{timestamp}}",
    "access_key": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
    "secret_key": "YOUR_SECRET_KEY"
  }],
  "provisioners": [{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": ["sudo yum install -y nginx"]
  }]
}

2. Push your configuration to git

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -am "create packer-remote repository"
$ git push -u "YOUR_REPOSITORY_URI"

3. Create packer-remote configuration

$ vi config.json

{
   "port": 8080,
   "vcs" : {
     "url" : "_git_repository_url_",
     "type": "git"
   },
   "packer": {
     "path" : "./packer.json"
   }
}

Config settings

Fields	Require	Type	Value
port	No	Int	server port number. Default = 8080
vcs	True	Map	vcs settinds. Detail is below.
packer	No	Map	packer settinds. Detail is below.

VCS Settings

Fields	Require	Type	Value
type	True	String	VCS type name.
url	True	String	VCS repository url.

Packer Settings

Fields	Require	Type	Value
path	No	String	The path of packer settings. Defailt = "./packer.json"

4. Run command

Execute packer-remote run to start a server.

$ packer-remote run

5. Access to your server

$ curl http://localhost:8080/build

Extra

If you use AWS EC2 and ELB, you can use /health as helth check url. PackerRemote returns status 200 when it is running.

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

Kuchitama/packer-remote