I have built this and started testing. I had to dissect the code a bit to get a
working set of json for input. Initially I found that if ssh_key_path isn't a
real file the process exits immediately with a success message but nothing
happens
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "cloudstack",
"api_url": "https://server/client/api";,
"api_key": "***",
"secret": "***",
"ssh_timeout": "60s",
"state_timeout": "100s",
"ssh_username": "root",
"ssh_port": 22,
"ssh_key_path": "id_rsa",
"http_directory": "http",
"service_offering_id": "46446411-f9ab-4856-a046-087dc115ee30",
"template_id": "83ca136a-f8c8-4063-812b-378b6ac9246d",
"zone_id": "912e5efc-cc9a-4386-9b55-d438274b9b30",
"network_ids": [ "2c5b96ce-2666-467c-88c4-d0a0575d20ca" ],
"disk_offering_id": "eca03965-d10e-4b36-b6c4-e697ede7d136",
"user_data": "testingsadfasd",
"template_name": "test",
"template_display_text": "test",
"template_os_id": 1
}
]
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Jönsson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 12:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: packer for building cloudstack templates
Hi all!
Sorry for resurrecting this ancient thread. My pull request for packer has been
lingering a quite some time now. It would be great if the Cloudstack community
could help out with testing a bit more. This however requires that you install
go and build a customer packer-version off the pull-request from github. Note
that this requires golang 1.2, git, hg and bzr installed. You should be able to
do that using your OS packager (yum,apt-get, brew, etc). When you have those
tools installed the following commands you get you going:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$PATH
mkdir -p $GOPATH
go get github.com/mitchellh/packer # build download, build and install the
master version of packer into $GOPATH/bin cd
$GOPATH/src/github.com/mitchellh/packer/
git fetch origin refs/pull/922/head && git checkout FETCH_HEAD # will download
the HEAD of the latest version of pull request and check it out make # will
compile packer with cloudstack support and install into $GOPATH/bin
When building templates it's a good idea to set the PACKER_LOG variable (to
anything expect an empty string) to see the actual printouts. This will help in
debugging any eventual problems/bugs. I'll send some examples of configuration
json-files tomorrow.
Thanks :)
// peter
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Brian Galura <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's great to see progress in adding support to Packer I will test it
> as soon as it's available.
>
> But what do people do today? Is there a way to convert an ovf to vhd
> for example? I would be surprised if everyone creates templates by hand.
>
>
> Sent from Citrix WorxMail for iPhone
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Peter Jönsson <[email protected]>
> Date: 2014-01-25 09:43:55 +0000
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: packer for building cloudstack templates
>
> Hi!
>
> As my library for talking to cloudstack (gopherstack) wasn't ideal I
> have been waiting for a new variant. It was release yesterday:
> https://github.com/svanharmelen/gocs .
>
> I will take a look at this library and perhaps, if it is good, port
> over my updates to packer to talk to this library. Then hopefully I
> can clean up my changes and send a pull request to upstream packer.
>
> In general the approach we take for templates is to built them from
> scratch. That means PXE booting the instance, downloading
> kernel/initrd from a net boot server, then finally starting the
> OS-installation through kickstart. With packer this can be 100%
> automated via a special iPXE-ISO which will chain load off the user data
> attached to the VM instance.
>
> - Build custom iPXE with simple embedded boot script:
>
> #!pxe
> dhcp
> chain http://${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.,
> >
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