Packer Templates

note:

GreenQloud provides no official support for this community repository

GreenQloud's Packer Templates is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building virtual machine images for QStack.

#Installation with docker

Install docker (1.9.1+)
docker pull qstack/packer
Container prebuilt on dockerhub https://hub.docker.com/r/qstack/packer/

Installation when installing on OS from scratch

You need

qemu for building .qcow2 KVM images
vmware (Fusion/Player) for building vmware .ova images
packer

rough install on Debian

apt-get install git curl qemu

curl -o /tmp/packer.zip 'https://d29vzk4ow07wi7.cloudfront.net/05d5939e4cda0cee5491d65fcdb793dd68c1a985?response-content-disposition=attachment%3Bfilename%3D%22packer_0.8.2_linux_amd64.zip%22&Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOiBbeyJSZXNvdXJjZSI6Imh0dHAqOi8vZDI5dnprNG93MDd3aTcuY2xvdWRmcm9udC5uZXQvMDVkNTkzOWU0Y2RhMGNlZTU0OTFkNjVmY2RiNzkzZGQ2OGMxYTk4NT9yZXNwb25zZS1jb250ZW50LWRpc3Bvc2l0aW9uPWF0dGFjaG1lbnQlM0JmaWxlbmFtZSUzRCUyMnBhY2tlcl8wLjguMl9saW51eF9hbWQ2NC56aXAlMjIiLCJDb25kaXRpb24iOnsiRGF0ZUxlc3NUaGFuIjp7IkFXUzpFcG9jaFRpbWUiOjE0Mzc0OTY4NzZ9LCJJcEFkZHJlc3MiOnsiQVdTOlNvdXJjZUlwIjoiMC4wLjAuMC8wIn19fV19&Signature=a6En-NolRjfu4pM8NdICExrxWJH39gWwccHAtId6rPzGiOT1-7rjN0lPIC31dgG1bdUxq-EdxQ3Io-4xabjMcS6iHV5xC-V3XAS7XjIJWlBTSk~m-8kQdIxbNRqR2tMUW85lzv-5joxLDfLXQMsT-uIZHOylVO9E0H7ikm1zbJb0esYcA7SQ1zZWcTRvGYrjYYbH~7yhpr60iTJc-VBhIAK9b4KeiYX2O289JK2otyN37rEMcWlqWU~36J9-5GIZp1cIRKZhnou-~7WNpUMs-KWV6ESiymphmkhBkC~DGNquArGUpPxXnq4GDAO1YeCsfFt3ymGlpfyKyYASEIceYQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFKFWOMXM2UMTSFA'

unzip /tmp/packer.zip -d /opt/packer

ln -s /opt/packer/packer /usr/bin/packer

git clone https://github.com/greenqloud/packer.git
cd packer/stable
make

We have tested only on Debian 7, but you should get the same results anywhere if using latest stables of qemu and packer

Stable templates (stable/)

go the the stable directory and issue make. You will get a list of templates available and you can build them by issuing make <templatename>-version_minorversion

The finished template will be placed in a new directory called output-<templatename>-version_minorversion

Current stable templates:

Debian 8.1
Windows 2012 Standard R2
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 15.04

disk size

You can control the disk size of the produced template by setting the disk_size parameter, for example: make debian-8_1 disk_size=61440 (this would produce a 60GB template)

Not fully tested templates (testing/)

These templates work the same way as the ones in the stable directory, although they have not been polished. Go to the testing directory and you can make the templates.

Current "testing" templates:

CoreOS stable
Centos 7.0
Debian 7.8

Unstable templates (unstable/)

These are templates that are works in progress and may not be working at all. They should absolutely not be used in production, pull requests are welcome.

"attic" directory

This has old deprecated stuff and is only here for historical (hysterical?) reasons. This might be deleted at any moment.

Quick testing of template

To see if the template boots and does most of what you want to do, you can run it on your packer server to do a quick glance through VNC, before registering and testing in QStack

qemu-system-x86_64 -device virtio-net -drive file=debian-8.1-10240.qcow2,if=virtio,cache=writeback,discard=ignore -boot once=d -name test -machine type=pc,accel=kvm -m 4096M -vnc 0.0.0.0:1

Registering templates in QStack

You can register them via the admin panel as described in the documentation, or via cloudmonkey

# find ostypes
cloudmonkey list ostypes
cloudmonkey register template name="Debian 8.1 10GB" displaytext="Debian 8.1 10GB" zoneid=be25c4af-5c73-437c-9506-4cccc9aa5d52 hypervisor="kvm" format="qcow2" ostypeid=49759e4c-2a2c-11e5-b8ff-0242ac110007 bits=64 url="http://server.with.images/debian-8.1-10240.qcow2" ispublic=true isfeatured=true

License & Authors

Author: Jon Thor Kristinsson (jon@greenqloud.com)
Author: Jordi Amorós (jordi@greenqloud.com)
Author: Kristinn Soffanías Rúnarsson (soffi@greenqloud.com)

Copyright 2015, Greenqloud (<support@greenqloud.com>)

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