jerome-jutteau / cooker

Cooker is a tool that is used on top of packer.io and provides recipes for building all sorts of appliances and OS images on the outscale IaaS and amazon infrastructures..

cooker v1.0

Cooker is a tool to be used on top of packer.io ( http://github.com/outscale/packer ), which provides a way a build a set of appliances and OS images on the Outscale IaaS infrastructure ( it also works with Amazon AWS )

Install

Just copy the cooker script at the root of this repos to a suitable place ( say a directory listed in $PATH like /usr/local/bin/ )

cp cooker /usr/local/bin

Usage

In order to use cooker, you will need your Outscale ( or Amazon) Access and Secret Keys.

Once you have these information, you can initialize cooker with the following command:

cooker init <YOUR_AK> <YOUR_SK> <REGION>

This step will then automatically fetch the last version of the recipes on github and prepare your cooker environment.

• To List available images to be built:

cooker list

This command will return you a list of path-like image identifiers, to be used when wanting to build an image.

• To build an image:

cooker cook <image_identifier>

At the end of this command and if the build process went fine, the command will return you the AMI-id of the image.

Note: image_identifier is the one of the lines returned by the "cooker list" command.