Packer templates

Packer templates are used to:

• automagically create OS images with upgraded packages
• provision user defined changes to created image
• remove user defined elements from image
• build single version of OS image for multiple hypervisors

Usage

Configuration

Source the config script and set prefered parameters for build

. ./config.sh

Image build

Enter build directory by selecting OS type and version. You should see file template.json.

Start building some images:

packer build template.json 

Development

Directory http/ contains OS installer config files (preseed/kickstart/..)

Directory scripts/ contains set of scripts for provision after image build.

Notes

• see Changelog.md file for supported builders and operating systems
• some builders cannot work at the same time (by design)