The Nutanix multi-component plugin can be used with HashiCorp Packer to create custom images. For the full list of available features for this plugin see docs.

Starting from version 1.7, Packer supports a new packer init command allowing automatic installation of Packer plugins. Read the Packer documentation for more information.

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration . Then, run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    nutanix = {
      version = ">= 0.8.0"
      source  = "github.com/nutanix-cloud-native/nutanix"
    }
  }
}

You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here. Once you have downloaded the latest archive corresponding to your target OS, uncompress it to retrieve the plugin binary file corresponding to your platform. To install the plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

If you prefer to build the plugin from its source code, clone the GitHub repository locally and run the command make build from the root directory. Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-nutanix plugin binary file can be found in the root directory. To install the compiled plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

For more information on how to configure the plugin, please find some examples in the example/ directory.

If you want to use the cd_files Option to create an additional iso-image for kickstart-files or similiar be aware that MacOS won´t create a suitable file. Please install xorriso for support on MacOS.

 brew install xorriso

See the contributing docs.

This code is developed in the open with input from the community through issues and PRs. A Nutanix engineering team serves as the maintainer. Documentation is available in the project repository.

Issues and enhancement requests can be submitted in the Issues tab of this repository. Please search for and review the existing open issues before submitting a new issue.

The project is released under version 2.0 of the Apache license.