Templates for Packer

On OS X Packer is available via Homebrew

$ brew install packer

To build e.g. the CentOS 6 template with VirtualBox (which will produce a Vagrant box):

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso template.json

Vagrant is able to manage different versions of the same box - i.e. one might have CentOS 6 & 7 boxes. For this one must vagrant box add a box catalog metadata file instead of adding the box file directly.

See bellow for a template where $NAME, $VERSION, $PROVIDER and $PATH_TO_BOX must be replaced with their respective values:

{
  "name": "$NAME",
  "versions": [{
    "version": "$VERSION",
    "status": "active",
    "providers": [{
      "name": "$PROVIDER",
      "url": "file:///$PATH_TO_BOX"
    }]
  }]
}