outscale / omi-packer

Creates fully working Outscale Machine Images using Packer and shell scripts

OMI Builder

This project creates fully working Outscale Machine Images using Packer and shell scripts.

It requires an already working Rocky Linux 8 image on the destination Outscale Region (for Linux images) or a working Windows Golden Image in the corresponding version of wanted Windows image (for Windows images).

Requirements

• Packer (>= 1.8.3)

Usage

Set the following environment variables:

export OUTSCALE_ACCESSKEYID=<ACCESS_KEY>
export OUTSCALE_SECRETKEYID=<SECRET_KEY>
export OUTSCALE_REGION=eu-west-2 # Outscale Region
export OMI_NAME=<OMI_NAME>

And, for Linux images only:

export SCRIPT_BASE=centos8 # Any script located in ./script/base/ without .sh extension
export SOURCE_OMI=ami-0dd0ab23 # A working CentOS 8 image

And, for Windows image only:

export BASE_NAME=Windows-10 # Base name, only required for Windows OMI, see below
export PKR_VAR_volsize=50 # Size in GB of produced OMI

You can then build the image using:

packer init -upgrade config.pkr.hcl
packer build linux.pkr.hcl # for Linux image
packer build windows.pkr.hcl # for Windows image

Optional parameters

export PKR_VAR_volsize=<SIZE> # OMI root volume size in GB, default is 10
export PKR_VAR_username=outscale # Builder VM SSH Username

Available images

Linux

Linux images requires a working CentOS 8 or equivalent image present on destination Region, with a username "outscale".
This username can be changed by setting PKR_VAR_username environment variable to a different username.

The following Linux scripts are provided and can be used in SCRIPT_BASE:

• centos7 (CentOS 7)
• rocky8 (Rocky Linux 8)
• rocky9 (Rocky Linux 9)
• rhel8 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 without license)
• rhel8csp (RedHat Enterprise Linux 8)
• rhel9 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 without license)
• rhel9csp (RedHat Enterprise Linux 9)
• ubuntu2004 (Ubuntu 20.04)
• ubuntu2204 (Ubuntu 22.04)
• ubuntu2404 (Ubuntu 24.04)
• debian11 (Debian 11)
• debian12 (Debian 12)
• arch (ArchLinux)
• alma9 (AlmaLinux 9)
• opensuse154 (OpenSuse 15.4)

Beware: CSP images (rhel8scp) and (rhel9scp) requires edition of ./files/cloudinit-specific/05_rhelx.cfg to set a proper RedHat Satellite Server owned and configured by the customer itself. Failing to do so will result in a violation of Outscale Terms and Conditions.

Windows

Windows images are required to be named <BASE_NAME>-GOLDEN in order to be recognized by the Packer scripts (eg. Windows-10-GOLDEN).
This behaviour can be changed in windows.pkr.hcl.