Packer is a automation tool made to create image from a template. Not to create one from a running instance with random manual changes. Just use gcloud for that.
On Jan 9, 2018 23:30, "Lucky" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I have a running instance with lots of changes applied manually. > I need that instances disk now to be converted to a bootable image using > packer, so that I can consume > that image to launch other instances using that original instance as > source of base image. > > gcloud cli supports that feature, but I didn't see anything packer docs. > > Lucky > > > On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 3:06:01 PM UTC-8, Rickard von Essen wrote: >> >> To my knowledge it's not possible. Do you have an imported boot disk? >> >> On Jan 4, 2018 23:33, "Lucky" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I was wondering, if there's equivalent in packer to create an image out >>> of GCE's instance bootable disk?. >>> >>> Something what gcloud cli suggests, such as >>> gcloud compute --project=ops-pcp-poc images create image-1 >>> --source-disk=qdb01 --source-disk-zone=us-west1-a >>> >>> Would source_image=qdb01 work? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Lucky >>> >>> -- >>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >>> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >>> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >>> list. >>> >>> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues >>> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Packer" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/packer-tool/eda7f1f9-a73a-41ef-b95d-fdd731adab48%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/eda7f1f9-a73a-41ef-b95d-fdd731adab48%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/6e021e3f-c4a6-4d58-84f3-858e9e4973ed%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/6e021e3f-c4a6-4d58-84f3-858e9e4973ed%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-QqcVThQQCsP6FAv-xDS%3DEZax3fQwW2T6giwF54tEK2A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
