It's great to see progress in adding support to Packer I will test it as soon as it's available.
But what do people do today? Is there a way to convert an ovf to vhd for example? I would be surprised if everyone creates templates by hand. Sent from Citrix WorxMail for iPhone ________________________________ From: Peter Jönsson <peter.jons...@klarna.com> Date: 2014-01-25 09:43:55 +0000 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org>,peter.joens...@gmail.com <peter.joens...@gmail.com>,users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: packer for building cloudstack templates Hi! As my library for talking to cloudstack (gopherstack) wasn’t ideal I have been waiting for a new variant. It was release yesterday: https://github.com/svanharmelen/gocs . I will take a look at this library and perhaps, if it is good, port over my updates to packer to talk to this library. Then hopefully I can clean up my changes and send a pull request to upstream packer. In general the approach we take for templates is to built them from scratch. That means PXE booting the instance, downloading kernel/initrd from a net boot server, then finally starting the OS-installation through kickstart. With packer this can be 100% automated via a special iPXE-ISO which will chain load off the user data attached to the VM instance. - Build custom iPXE with simple embedded boot script: #!pxe dhcp chain http://${dhcp-server}/latest/userdata - Boot up VM with user data attached with enough information to continue the boot, e.g. "#!ipxe\nkernel http://netboot/centos/6.3/x86_64/vmlinuz ks=http://netboot/ks.cfg\ninitrd http://netboot/centos/6.3/x86_64/initrd.img\nboot” - After kickstart is completed we reboot the instance and continue setting it up using packer provisioning scripts. Things become slightly easier when only performing incremental template updates. But then someone need to create the initial template of course. // Peter On Saturday 25 January 2014 at 09:38, Prasanna Santhanam wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:43:07AM +0000, Brian Galura wrote: > > At my company we use packer to build ec2 images and really like it. > > I would like to use it for cloudstack also. > > > > I found this: https://github.com/vogxn/packer-builtin > > > > Which appears to be a centos6 image builder for cloudstack but it > > lacks instructions to convert the resultant image into something I > > can import to cloudstack. > > > > Has anyone successfully done this? > > > > How do you build cloudstack templates? > > Hi Brian, > > That repo only contains a test builtin I was trying to build using > packer. Peter Jonsson is working on a cloudstack builder for packer > and announced about this last week. > > Peter's repo is here: > https://github.com/mindjiver/packer > > You will need go to run the packer src and setup the cloudstack > builder > > $ make updatedeps > $ make > > -- > Prasanna., > > ------------------------ > Powered by BigRock.com (http://BigRock.com)
