Problem with cloudstack and packer is that packer is not able to send keyboard commands to the instance at the moment. There is no boot_command functionality within the cloudstack packer plugin. After starting packer build you need to go to the vm console and do install steps manually. We are working right now to implement this feature to the plugin, so packer is able to perform a fully automated template creation.
First step is to implement new api createConsoleEndpoint to cloudstack-go package. Pull request is here: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-go/pull/78 After that we should be able to use this to send keyboard commands to the instance. Regards, Swen -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kiran Chavala <kiran.chav...@shapeblue.com> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. März 2024 11:42 An: users@cloudstack.apache.org Betreff: Re: packer cloudstack Hi Francisco Please find the sample template I had created for cloudstack https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicorp/cloudstack/latest/components/builder/cloudstack#basic-example https://github.com/kiranchavala/cloudstack-marketplace-templates https://github.com/kiranchavala/cloudstack-marketplace-templates/blob/main/docker-22-04.pkr.hcl Other useful links https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-templates-packer https://github.com/PCextreme/packer-templates Regards Kiran From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada <arencibia.franci...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 4:03 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: packer cloudstack Good morning guys, I'm using packer, and I'm having some issues, I can't find many examples online, at least for cloudstack. Do you guys have any template working to point me in the right direction? My file complains about the boot_command option: source "cloudstack" "example" { api_url = "http://X.X.X.X:8080/client/api"; api_key = "XXXXXXX" secret_key = "XXXXXXX" disk_offering = "Standard Custom" disk_size = "20" hypervisor = "XenServer" network = "test-packer" service_offering = "4-8" source_iso = "Ubuntu 22.04.1 live server amd64" zone = "EU-MAD1" ssh_username = "user" ssh_password = "packer" template_name = "Ubuntu22.04.1-XCP-Packer" template_display_text = "ubuntu-22.04.1-XCP-Packer" template_featured = true template_password_enabled = true template_scalable = true template_os = "Other PV (64-bit)" http_directory = "http" http_port_min = 8000 http_port_max = 8099 boot_command = [ "<esc><esc><enter><wait>", "linux /install/vmlinuz noapic ", "preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ", "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us ", "hostname={{ user `Name` }} ", "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive ", "keyboard-configuration/modelcode=SKIP keyboard-configuration/layout=USA ", "keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false ", "initrd=/install/initrd.gz -- <enter>" ] } build { sources = ["source.cloudstack.example"] } pressed.cfg ### set locales d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8 d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us ### Network configuration d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto d-i netcfg/get_hostname string ubuntu d-i netcfg/get_domain string localdomain ### Ubuntu mirrors d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string ### credentials d-i passwd/user-fullname string Ubuntu User d-i passwd/username string ubuntu d-i passwd/user-password password ubuntu d-i passwd/user-password-again password ubuntu d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false ### Timezone configuration d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true d-i time/zone string UTC ### Disk partitioning d-i partman-auto/method string regular d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true d-i partman/choose_partition select finish d-i partman/confirm boolean true d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true ### base system d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server ### Automatic updates d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none ### Software selection tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ### GRUB install d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true ### Finish installation d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note Thank you all in advance Regards -- *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.* *DevOps Engineer*
