lmayorga1980/my-packer-templates

Custom Packer Templates

My Packer Templates

Builds serveral Packer Templates(AWS, Vagrant or anything interesting)

Requirements

• Packer 1.3.x.
• VirtualBox 6.x - VirtualBox Download https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Amazon Access Keys configured in $HOME/.aws/credentials - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html
• Configure your environment variables - For OSX ~./bashrc with the "AWS_S3_BUCKET" or Windows System Variables.

How does it work

• Validate a Packer template packer validate <template_name>.json.
• Run a Packer build packer build <template_name>.json.
• Run a Packer build with variables packer -var-file myvariables.json <template_name>.json

References

• Packer Amazon Import Post-Processor - https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/amazon-import.html
• Amazon Import Process - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html
• Packer VMware ESXI - https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-iso.html