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packer-pit

Linux Packer templates and installation and configuration scripts.

Supported images

  • CentOS 7
    • Virtualbox with Vagrant and Ansible
    • QEMU with Vagrant and Ansible
  • Centos 6
    • Virtualbox with Vagrant and Ansible
    • QEMU with Vagrant and Ansible

General Features

  • Configurable Packer build via environment variables (Check run.sh for used env vars.)
    • PACKER_PATH : Path of unextracted packer files. Default: ${HOME}/packer
    • PACKER_WORKDIR : Path to the working dir. Cached files, Builder and Post-Processor outputs go under this by default. Default: ${PACKER_PATH}/workdir
    • PACKER_CONFIG : The path of the packer template file. Default: templates/centos7.json
    • PACKER_ISO_URL : The url of the Linux ISO
    • PACKER_CACHE'_DIR : Downloaded ISO file cache directory location. Default: ${PACKER_WORKDIR}/packer_cache/
    • PACKER_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY : Builder and Post-Processor file location. Default: ${PACKER_WORKDIR}/packer_output/
    • PACKER_IMAGE_SIZE_MB : The size of the final image in MB. Default: 5000
    • PACKER_VMW_REMOTE_HOST, PACKER_VMW_REMOTE_USER, PACKER_VMW_REMOTE_PASSWORD for WMVARE build
  • http_proxy support via http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables.
  • Vagrant support
  • Ansible included

Usage

  • export every variable you want to overwrite than use run.sh
export PACKER_TEMPLATE=templates/centos7.json
export PACKER_ISO_URL="http://ftp.freepark.org/pub/linux/distributions/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-Minimal.iso"
./run.sh
  • Or use the user interface than sit back and wait
./run.sh --ui

Important information

  • root user is created and password is set to root BUT root account is locked
  • vagrant user is created and password is vagrant
  • vagrant is allowed to sudo bash to became root without any password
  • vagrant user can log in with the official vagrant public/private key

Known Issues

EL7 Interface naming issue

EL7(RedHat 7+,CentOS 7+, Fedora 19+) have changed its interface naming scheme. So older Vagrant versions need a fix. Install the fix with:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-centos7_fix