Packer templates for Ubuntu
Overview
This repository contains templates for Ubuntu that can create Vagrant boxes using Packer.
Current Boxes
64-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/ubuntu1410 - Ubuntu Server 14.10 (64-bit), VMware 354MB/VirtualBox 302MB/Parallels 320MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1410-docker - Ubuntu Server 14.10 (64-bit) with Docker preinstalled, VMware 478MB/VirtualBox 454MB/Parallels 457MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1404 - Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 (64-bit), VMware 324MB/VirtualBox 288MB/Parallels 302MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1404-desktop - Ubuntu Desktop 14.04.1 (64-bit), VMware 1.1GB/VirtualBox 1.1GB/Parallels 1.1GB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1404-docker - Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 (64-bit) with Docker preinstalled, VMware 432MB/VirtualBox 412MB/Parallels 429MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1204 - Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 (64-bit), VMware 284MB, VirtualBox 237MB/Parallels 265MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1204-desktop - Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.4 (64-bit), VMware 925MB/VirtualBox 815MB/Parallels 957MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1204-docker - Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 (64-bit) with Docker preinstalled, VMware 393MB/VirtualBox 354MB/Parallels 375MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1004 - Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 (64-bit), VMware 216MB/VirtualBox 191MB/Parallels 210MB
32-bit boxes:
- box-cutter/ubuntu1410-i386 - Ubuntu Server 14.10 (32-bit), VMware 353MB/VIrtualBox 314MB/Parallels 319MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1404-i386 - Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 (32-bit), VMware 322MB/VirtualBox 284MB/Parallels 298MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1204-i386 - Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 (32-bit), VMware 280MB/VirtualBox 226MB/Parallels 257MB
- box-cutter/ubuntu1004-i386 - Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 (32-bit), VMware 224MB/VirtualBox 167MB/Parallels 207MB
Building the Vagrant boxes
To build all the boxes, you will need VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop for Mac installed.
Parallels requires that the Parallels Virtualization SDK for Mac be installed as an additional preqrequisite.
A GNU Make Makefile
drives the process via the following targets:
make # Build all the box types (VirtualBox & VMware)
make test # Run tests against all the boxes
make list # Print out individual targets
make clean # Clean up build detritus
Proxy Settings
The templates respect the following network proxy environment variables and forward them on to the virtual machine environment during the box creation process, should you be using a proxy:
- http_proxy
- https_proxy
- ftp_proxy
- rsync_proxy
- no_proxy
Tests
The tests are written in Serverspec and require the
vagrant-serverspec
plugin to be installed with:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-serverspec
The Makefile
has individual targets for each box type with the prefix
test-*
should you wish to run tests individually for each box. For example:
make test-box/virtualbox/ubuntu1404-nocm.box
Similarly there are targets with the prefix ssh-*
for registering a
newly-built box with vagrant and for logging in using just one command to
do exploratory testing. For example, to do exploratory testing
on the VirtualBox training environmnet, run the following command:
make ssh-box/virtualbox/ubuntu1404-nocm.box
Upon logout make ssh-*
will automatically de-register the box as well.
Makefile.local override
You can create a Makefile.local
file alongside the Makefile
to override
some of the default settings. The variables can that can be currently
used are:
- CM
- CM_VERSION
- <iso_path>
- UPDATE
Makefile.local
is most commonly used to override the default configuration
management tool, for example with Chef:
# Makefile.local
CM := chef
Changing the value of the CM
variable changes the target suffixes for
the output of make list
accordingly.
Possible values for the CM variable are:
nocm
- No configuration management toolchef
- Install Chefchefdk
- Install Chef Development Kitpuppet
- Install Puppetsalt
- Install Salt
You can also specify a variable CM_VERSION
, if supported by the
configuration management tool, to override the default of latest
.
The value of CM_VERSION
should have the form x.y
or x.y.z
,
such as CM_VERSION := 11.12.4
The variable UPDATE
can be used to perform OS patch management. The
default is to not apply OS updates by default. When UPDATE := true
,
the latest OS updates will be applied.
Another use for Makefile.local
is to override the default locations
for the Ubuntu install ISO files.
For Ubuntu, the ISO path variables are:
- UBUNTU1004_SERVER_AMD64
- UBUNTU1004_SERVER_I386
- UBUNTU1204_SERVER_AMD64
- UBUNTU1204_SERVER_I386
- UBUNTU1204_ALTERNATE_AMD64
- UBUNTU1404_SERVER_AMD64
- UBUNTU1404_SERVER_I386
- UBUNTU1410_SERVER_AMD64
- UBUNTU1410_SERVER_I386
This override is commonly used to speed up Packer builds by
pointing at pre-downloaded ISOs instead of using the default
download Internet URLs:
UBUNTU1404_SERVER_AMD64 := file:///Volumes/Ubuntu/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso