Packer Templates

Packer templates for building base VM boxes. Curently the following operating systems are supported:

Usage

Download the latest packer from http://www.packer.io/downloads.html and unzip the appropriate directory.

If you are an OS X user consider installing packer using Homebrew:

$ brew tap homebrew/binary
$ brew install packer

$ git clone https://github.com/mirolli/packer-templates
$ cd packer-templates/<box-definition-dir>/
$ packer build <template_name>.json

If you want to build only virtualbox or vmware.

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso <template_name>.json
$ packer build -only=vmware-iso <template_name>.json

Parallel builds can be run on 0.6.0 or latest packer version.

$ packer build -parallel=true <template_name>.json

Each OS template is available in three different flavors:

<os>-nocm.json: Standard base box with vagrant user, guest additions, but without any configuration management preinstalled
<os>-puppet.json: Standard base box like above and with puppet already installed

Pick those you need. If you need another flavor, please open up a PR.

These templates was tested using a packer 0.7.5.

These packer templates were built by considering different sources of inspiraiton. Therefore credits to whom it belongs:

See git shortlog for the list of changes.