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Packer Image Building

Using packer to generate images

Packer is used to build images for use in Terraform.

Installation

MacOS

We can install packer using Hashicorp’s Brew Tap.

brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/packer

1 - Ubuntu 24.04 Base

Default build image

Ubuntu 24.04 is the default build for Carbon. It is based on a minimal server installation. This means you only install what you need to operate. Image customization will be facilitated through Cloud Init. This should make building and testing new configurations easy.

2 - Ubuntu 24.04 Packer Config

Default build image

Ubuntu 24.04 is the default build for Carbon. It is based on a minimal server installation. This means you only install what you need to operate. Image customization will be facilitated through Cloud Init. This should make building and testing new configurations easy.

2.1 -

Usage

VirtualBox

Building with VirtualBox

packer build  .

Testing with VirtualBox

A simple script has been provided to create a new VirtualBox machine with the newly created disk image.

scripts/test-carbon-ubuntu.sh