AlmaLinux OS Cloud Images is a project that contains Packer templates and other tools for building AlmaLinux OS images for various cloud platforms.
| Name | Download URL |
|---|---|
| AWS Marketplace AMI | https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B094C8ZZ8J |
| AWS community AMIs | https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/AWS.html |
| Docker Hub | https://hub.docker.com/_/almalinux |
| Generic Cloud (cloud-init) | https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/ |
| Google Cloud | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images#almalinux |
| LXC/LXD | https://images.linuxcontainers.org |
| Quay.io | https://quay.io/repository/almalinux/almalinux |
| Vagrant boxes | app.vagrantup.com/almalinux |
- Add aarch64 architecture support
- Vagrant + VirtualBox support
- Vagrant + VMWare support
- Vagrant + Parallels support (#3)
- Vagrant + Microsoft Hyper-V support (#4)
- Vagrant + Libvirt support
- AWS support (using the VMWare builder only, it would be nice to support VirtualBox or Qemu as well)
- Google Cloud support
- Microsoft Azure support (#14)
- DigitalOcean support
- Generic Cloud / OpenStack support (#12)
- LXC/LXD support (#8)
Initialize Packer plugins:
$ packer init .Build a VirtualBox box:
$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso.almalinux-8 .Build a VMWare box:
$ packer build -only=vmware-iso.almalinux-8 .Build a Libvirt box:
$ packer build -only=qemu.almalinux-8 .Build a Hyper-V box:
> packer build -only="hyperv-iso.almalinux-8" .Before building AMI's you need to configure AWS credentials as described in the Packer documentation. Basically, you need to define the following environment variables:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='ENTER_YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_HERE'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='ENTER_YOUR_SECRET_KEY_HERE'
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION='us-east-1'Also, you need to create an S3 bucket that Packer will use for temporary image
storing before importing it into EC2. It's strongly recommended creating the
bucket in the us-east-1 region if you are going to submit your images to the
Amazon Marketplace. Accordingly to Amazon's documentation,
the self-service AMI scanner supports only that region.
After configuring the AWS credentials and creating the S3 bucket, run the following command to build an AMI and import it to EC2:
$ packer build -var aws_s3_bucket_name="YOUR_S3_BUCKET_NAME" -only=vmware-iso.almalinux-8-aws .If you are using a non-standard role name, it's possible to define it as a variable:
$ packer build -var aws_s3_bucket_name="YOUR_S3_BUCKET_NAME" \
-var aws_role_name="YOUR_IAM_ROLE_NAME" -only=vmware-iso.almalinux-8-aws .$ packer build -only qemu.almalinux-8-gencloud-x86_64 .- Packer
- Ansible
- VirtualBox (for VirtualBox images only)
- VMWare Workstation (for VMWare images and Amazon AMI's only)
- QEMU (for Generic Cloud and Libvirt images only)
Licensed under the MIT license, see the LICENSE file for details.