Debian Packer Templates

The current and only template was created for a Debian 8.1.0 VM box. These boxes are "vanilla" with a minimal setup, 256MB RAM, 1 CPU and includes Puppet.

These settings can be easily changed in vagrant.

Prerequisites

• Packer (>= 0.7.5)(http://www.packer.io/downloads.html)
• Vagrant (>= 1.7.2)(http://downloads.vagrantup.com/)
• VirtualBox or VMWare

Installing Packer via Homebrew

$ brew tap homebrew/binary
$ brew install packer

Configure the vagrant box

Edit the debian-8.1.0-64-puppet.json and check the variables at the beginning of the file.

Note:

The debian iso file name contains the version number and, as soon as a new release will be out and the 780 will be removed from the debian servers, the debian-780-wheezy-virtualbox.json file will be outdated and you'll get the "ISO download failed" error after running the build command. To fix the issue go on http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/, check which is the latest net-inst version and copy its checksum from the MD5SUMS file. Then edit the .json file and update these variables at the beginning of the .json file:

• "iso_url": update the link to the iso file
• "iso_md5": insert the new MD5 checksum
• "vm_name": update the version

Build vagrant box

$ make build-all

or optionnaly, select only one provider, for example vmware:

$ make build-vmware

Install your new box

$ vagrant box add debian-8.1.0-64-puppet debian-8.1.0-64-puppet-virtualbox.box

or

$ vagrant box add debian-8.1.0-64-puppet debian-8.1.0-64-puppet-vmware.box

The VM image has been imported to vagrant, it's now available on your system.

Vagrant

Getting Started

To use this image with Vagrant, create a vagrant file (vagrant init), and use the newly created box:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # All Vagrant configuration is done here. The most common configuration
  # options are documented and commented below. For a complete reference,
  # please see the online documentation at vagrantup.com.

  # Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of.
  config.vm.box = "debian-8.1.0-64-puppet"

  # Make ssh login secure
  # config.ssh.private_key_path = '~/.ssh/id_rsa'
  #
  # [...]
end

And initialize the vm:

$ vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion

The --provider option is only needed if another vagrant provider is available, like virtualbox.

Ignore vagrant boxes in git

$ echo ".vagrant" >> ~/.gitignore

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your recipe branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some features')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-features)
5. Create new Pull Request

Credits

This project is based on Tech Angels Packer templates