Packer templates for Fedora
Overview
This repository contains templates for Fedora that can create Vagrant boxes using Packer.
Current Boxes
64-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/fedora20 - Fedora 20 (64-bit), VMware 421MB/VirtualBox 363MB
- box-cutter/fedora19 - Fedora 19 (64-bit), VMware 400MB/VirtualBox 335MB
- box-cutter/fedora18 - Fedora 18 (64-bit), VMware 359MB/VirtualBox 299MB
32-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/fedora20-i386 - Fedora 20 (32-bit), VMware 419MB/VirtualBox 357MB
- box-cutter/fedora19-i386 - Fedora 19 (32-bit), VMware 397MB/VirtualBox 333MB
- box-cutter/fedora18-i386 - Fedora 18 (32-bit), VMware 357MB/VirtualBox 295MB
Building the Vagrant boxes
To build all the boxes, you will need Packer and both VirtualBox and VMware Fusion installed.
A GNU Make Makefile
drives the process via the following targets:
make # Build all the box types (VirtualBox & VMware)
make test # Run tests against all the boxes
make list # Print out individual targets
make clean # Clean up build detritus
Tests
The tests are written in Serverspec and require the
vagrant-serverspec
plugin to be installed with:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec
The Makefile
has individual targets for each box type with the prefix
test-*
should you wish to run tests individually for each box.
Similarly there are targets with the prefix ssh-*
for registering a
newly-built box with vagrant and for logging in using just one command to
do exploratory testing. For example, to do exploratory testing
on the VirtualBox training environmnet, run the following command:
make ssh-box/virtualbox/fedora20-nocm.box
Upon logout make ssh-*
will automatically de-register the box as well.
Makefile.local override
You can create a Makefile.local
file alongside the Makefile
to override
some of the default settings. It is most commonly used to override the
default configuration management tool, for example with Chef:
# Makefile.local
CM := chef
Changing the value of the CM
variable changes the target suffixes for
the output of make list
accordingly.
Possible values for the CM variable are:
nocm
- No configuration management toolchef
- Install Chefpuppet
- Install Puppetsalt
- Install Salt
You can also specify a variable CM_VERSION
, if supported by the
configuration management tool, to override the default of latest
.
The value of CM_VERSION
should have the form x.y
or x.y.z
,
such as CM_VERSION := 11.12.4
Another use for Makefile.local
is to override the default locations
for the Ubuntu install ISO files.
For Fedora, the ISO path variables are:
- FEDORA20_X86_64
- FEDORA19_X86_64
- FEDORA18_X86_64
- FEDORA20_I386
- FEDORA19_I386
- FEDORA18_I386
This override is commonly used to speed up Packer builds by
pointing at pre-downloaded ISOs instead of using the default
download Internet URLs:
FEDORA20_X86_64 := file:///Volumes/Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso
Acknowledgments
CloudBees is providing a hosted Jenkins master through their CloudBees FOSS program. Their On-Premise Executor feature is used to connect physical machines as build slaves running VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware ESXi/vSphere and Hyper-V.