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• packer-templates
  • Purpose
  • Information
    • Distros
  • Requirements
    • Software
  • Usage
    • Building a box
      • Select distro
      • Build distro
    • Testing a box
      • Add box to Vagrant
      • Create Vagrantfile
      • Spin it up
      • Test it out
      • Tear it down
    • Cleaning up
  • License
  • Author Information

This repository is for maintaining my personal Vagrant Box Templates using Packer.

• All builds are based on the VirtualBox provider.

• You can find my collection of builds here

NOTE: All builds are base builds and follow the Vagrant guidelines of how a Vagrant box should be built.

The following distros are available:

• Centos
  • 6
  • 7
• Debian
  • Jessie
  • Stretch
  • Wheezy
• Fedora
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
• OpenSuse
  • 13.2
  • 42.1
• RedHat
  • 7
• Ubuntu
  • Precise
  • Trusty
  • Utopic
  • Vivid
  • Wily
  • Xenial
  • Yakkety
  • Zesty

• Packer
• Virtualbox

To build a Vagrant box with Packer for Virtualbox:

Choose which distro you are interested in building.

NOTE: This example we will have chosen Ubuntu Xenial

cd Ubuntu/xenial64
packer build template.json

Now watch your build kick off and run through the building process. Once it has completed you will be ready to test it out.

Once your build has completed you are ready to test it out.

cd Ubuntu/xenial64
vagrant box add xenial64 xenial-server-x86_64.box

cd ~
mkdir -p packer/vagrant/xenial64
cd packer/vagrant/xenial64
vagrant init xenial64

vagrant up

vagrant ssh

Now do some basic tests to validate all is good.

vagrant destroy -f

Included in each distro is a cleanup script called cleanup.sh to clean up the build folder when you are complete.

#!/bin/bash
rm *.box
rm -rf packer_cache

To cleanup:

cd Ubuntu/xenial64
./cleanup.sh

MIT

Larry Smith Jr.

• @mrlesmithjr
• EverythingShouldBeVirtual
• mrlesmithjr [at] gmail.com