Packer Templates

These are my packer templates I use to build Vagrant boxes.

##Requirements

packer >= 0.7.5
ruby >= 1.9.3-p551
rake
virtualbox >= 4.3
vagrant >= 1.6

##How to build your vagrant boxes

This project has been crafted with CI and versioning in mind from the ground up, that's the reason why using packer wouldn't be enough. You need to use rake in order to build vagrant boxes based on templates located at the templates directory, like so:

rake # This will build all vagrant boxes

However, if you want to build a single box, you can do it this way:

# this will build the template located at templates/<image_name>/template.json
rake <box_name>

This is another example. This time, using the ubuntu-14.04-x64 box:

# this will build the template located at templates/ubuntu-14.04-x64/template.json
rake ubuntu-14.04-x64

These are the available boxes:

ubuntu-14.04-x86
ubuntu-14.04-x64
centos-7.0-x64

Once the build is done, Vagrant boxes will be located at the dist directory along with its correspondent box metadata file:

rake centos-7.0-x64
...
ls -lh dist/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alejandro alejandro 424M Apr 13 08:40 centos-7.0-x64_0.0.227706647.box
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alejandro alejandro  281 Apr 13 09:48 centos-7.0-x64.json

##Test your boxes

OK, so you have well-built your boxes with packer and now you want to test them. Turns out that you can do it out-of-the-box. You can configure the vagrant setup through a small ruby configuration file (site.rb) holding simple variables taken by this project's Vagrantfile.

cp site.rb.sample site.rb

Once you're done with your configuration file, you can fire up your vagrant box.

vagrant up

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axltxl/packer-templates

Packer Templates