MY PACKER IMAGE BUILDS

A place to keep my packer image builds.

tl;dr

## BUILD IMAGE
packer build template.pkr.hcl

## OTHER COMMANDS
packer validate template.pkr.hcl

Table of Contents

• OVERVIEW
• DOCKER IMAGES
• GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE (GCE) IMAGES
• VAGRANT IMAGES (BOX)
• VIRTUALBOX IMAGES

Documentation and Reference

• My packer cheat sheet
• An illustration of how vagrant, docker and packer build and deploy images
• This repos github webpage built with concourse

OVERVIEW

Packer is useful for the automated BUILD of a custom image.

These builds use the following statement,

Using packer to build a/an {CUSTOM IMAGE FILE} image containing the {CUSTOM IMAGE OS} OS for {PROVIDER TOOL} on {HOST OS}.

Where,

• CUSTOM IMAGE FILE: docker/gce/vagrant/virtualbox/etc.
• CUSTOM IMAGE OS: ubuntu/alpine/windows/etc.
• PROVIDER TOOL: docker/gce/virtualbox/etc.
• HOST OS: linux/windows

DOCKER IMAGES

You can also build docker images using a Dockerfile as shown in my-docker-image-builds.

• jeffs-docker-image-alpine

  Using packer to build a docker image containing the alpine OS for docker on linux.

• jeffs-docker-image-ubuntu-2204

  Using packer to build a docker image containing the ubuntu 22.04 OS for docker on linux.

GOOGLE COMPUTE ENGINE (GCE) IMAGES

You can also build gce images using gcloud cli or the gce gui.

• jeffs-gce-image-ubuntu-2204

  Using packer to remotely build a gce image containing the ubuntu 22.04 OS for gce on linux.

VAGRANT IMAGES (BOX)

• jeffs-vagrant-image-ubuntu-2204-for-virtualbox

  Using packer to build a vagrant image (box) containing the ubuntu 22.04 OS for virtualbox on linux or windows.

VIRTUALBOX IMAGES

It's nice using packer because you don't have to use the virtualbox gui.

• jeffs-virtualbox-image-ubuntu-2204-for-virtualbox

  Using packer to build a virtualbox image from an ubuntu 20.04 iso containing the ubuntu 22.04 OS for virtualbox on linux or windows.