Well, I wrote that library so I’m using it. :) I will try to make that library more agnostic to packer, that the plugin will be in a more releasable state. We are testing a version of packer with cloudstack support internally at work. That moving target is here: https://github.com/mindjiver/packer
// peter On Tuesday 21 January 2014 at 10:36, Prasanna Santhanam wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29:35AM +0100, sebgoa wrote: > > > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Peter J?nsson <peter.jons...@klarna.com > > (mailto:peter.jons...@klarna.com)> wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have been working on adding support for Cloudstack in packer.io > > > (http://packer.io). This way it is simple to create either new templates > > > from scratch or update an existing template. For creating the initial > > > template from scratch we have a custom iPXE ISO that will fetch the > > > iPXE-script via userdata, boot kernel+initrd and finally perform a > > > kickstart installation (we use centos). > > > > > > So the no more manual intervention to upload ISOs, select options in > > > installer, stop the VM and finally create the template. Everything is > > > automated. > > > > > > Plan is to upstream this to packer proper or release it as a independent > > > plugin. Currently the code need some cleanup. > > > > That's terrific Peter, I am trying to wrap my mind around packer > > these days, so it would be great to see a CloudStack plugin. > > > > +1 - looking forward to a packer plugin for cloudstack! If possible, > reuse the goclient that is already available to communicate via packer - > https://github.com/mindjiver/gopherstack > > Happy to help with bugfixes etc! > > -- > Prasanna., > > ------------------------ > Powered by BigRock.com (http://BigRock.com)
