Learn Packer

This repo is for myself and is about how to build VMs in an automated way with HashiCorp's Packer.

Prerequisites

$ date
Wed Jan 15 16:42:30 CET 2020

macOS or Linux

I used macOS.

$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.6
BuildVersion: 18G2022

VirtualBox

$ VirtualBoxVM --help | head -n 1
Oracle VM VirtualBox VM Runner v6.1.2
$ VBoxManage --version
6.1.2r135662

Packer

$ packer version
Packer v1.5.1

Downloads

downloads.md

git clone

$ git clone [email protected]:karolykass/learn-packer.git

$ cd learn-packer

Build VMs with Packer

Debian

Debian 10 (stable)

Debian 10.2.0 (stable)

Build with packer

Validate template

$ packer validate debian-10.2.0-amd64-standard-hu.json

Inspect template

$ packer inspect debian-10.2.0-amd64-standard-hu.json

Build VM

$ packer build debian-10.2.0-amd64-standard-hu.json

Import VM to VirtualBox

VirtualBox -> File -> Import Appliance... -> build/debian/10.2.0/packer-debian-10.2.0-amd64-standard-hu-virtualbox-iso.ovf

Debian 9 (oldstable)

Debian 9.11.0 (oldstable / archived)

archived.md

Ubuntu

Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)

Ubuntu 18.04.3 (LTS)

Build with packer

Validate template

$ packer validate ubuntu-18.04.3-server-amd64-standard-hu.json

Inspect template

$ packer inspect ubuntu-18.04.3-server-amd64-standard-hu.json

Build VM

$ packer build ubuntu-18.04.3-server-amd64-standard-hu.json

Import VM to VirtualBox

VirtualBox -> File -> Import Appliance... -> build/ubuntu/18.04.3/packer-ubuntu-18.04.3-amd64-standard-hu-virtualbox-iso.ovf

Docs and notes

docs_and_notes.md