sean- / joyent-freebsd

Random Provisioning bits for using FreeBSD on Joyent

Using FreeBSD on Joyent

A small packer template and terraform config to:

• build a custom FreeBSD image on Triton
• Provision the custom FreeBSD image on Triton (or use one of the stock images)

Installation/Usage

• Make sure you have a Triton profile setup: triton profile get && triton profile set-current
• make build - Takes ~8min to complete the image create and patching
• cp .terraform.vars{.example,}
• Copy the UUID out of make build and add it to .terraform.vars
• Edit remaining values in .terraform.vars accordingly
• make plan && make apply

See the comments in freebsd.json5, provider.tf, servers.tf, and GNUmakefile for additional details.

Debugging Tips

• If the template fails for some reason in order to be able to log into the instance and debug the problem, abort: make build EXTRA_ARGS=-on-error=abort

Workaround for older versions of Packer

For versions of Packer older than 1.0.0 (unrelased as of 2017-05-21) where hashicorp/packer#4909 had not been merged yet, the following patch is required. Apply with patch -p1 < pre-4909.patch:

diff --git b/freebsd.json5 a/freebsd.json5
index 2f6eed9..396eb4b 100644
--- b/freebsd.json5
+++ a/freebsd.json5
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@
     provisioners: [
         {
             type: "shell",
+            // Workaround until https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/4909 is
+            // merged and released.
+            execute_command: "/bin/chmod +x {{ .Path }}; /usr/bin/env {{ .Vars }} {{ .Path }}",
             inline: [
                 "/usr/bin/uname -a",