Packer Templates
Packer templates based on the excellent work by the Veewee community, @boxcutter, @timsutton et al & @joefitzgerald et al.
Saltstack comes installed on everything.
Everything as part of this repo (and sub-repos) are tested using Vagrant 1.6+ and VMWare 6.
Prerequisites
packer(duh)
On OSX, the following will do the job:
brew tap homebrew/binary
brew install packer
Build
The build-salted-vagrant.sh script wraps packer to provide a simple interface to building Vagrant boxes with specific versions of Salt installed. After packer has finished, the script also tests the outputted box to ensure it's behaving as expected:
./build-salted-vagrant.sh -v 2014.7.5 jessie
The full usage for this script:
build-salted-vagrant.sh [-h] [-t] [-d] [-f] [-p platform] -v <version> <flavour>
flavour release codename {'wheezy','trusty','debian','ubuntu'} ('debian' will default to latest release)
-v version salt version tag to install
-p (optional) platform: either virtualbox or vmware
-t (optional) test mode (don't dist_upgrade; leave box available for test)
-d (optional) debug mode; print all vagrant output
-h (optional) print this help message
-f (optional) overwrite existing boxes without input
Packer
From the root directory, the following you can run packer commands directly. For example:
packer build -only=vmware-iso -force debian/wheezy.json
packer build -only=vmware-iso -force ubuntu/trusty.json
All packer commands as part of this repo (and sub-repos) accept -var headless=false to show VMWare whilst the build is in progress.
OSX
This is a whole separate repo forked from timsutton/osx-vm-templates:
cd osx
cat README.md
Windows
Another separate repo included as a submodule from joefitzgerald/packer-windows:
cd windows
packer build -force -only=vmware-iso windows_7.json