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Packer Templates

The most of settings are specified as variables. This allows to override them with -var key without template modification. A few environment variables should be specified as a safety measure. See debian.json ubuntu.json with the post-processors section with all details about deploying the Vagrant Boxes to Atlas.

Custom builds

Ubuntu build

  UBUNTU_MAJOR_VERSION=16.04 \
  UBUNTU_MINOR_VERSION=.1 \
  UBUNTU_TYPE=server \
  ARCH=amd64 \
  HEADLESS=true \
  packer build -var 'cpus=2' ubuntu.json

Debian build

  DEBIAN_MAJOR_VERSION=8 \
  DEBIAN_MINOR_VERSION=5 \
  ARCH=amd64 \
  HEADLESS=true \
  packer build -var 'cpus=2' debian.json

(root password is "vagrant" or is not set )

Username: vagrant
Password: vagrant

SSH_USER may be used to create a different user whci may be used later to access environment.

VM Specifications

Vagrant Libvirt Provider
Vagrant Virtualbox Provider

qemu

VirtIO dynamic Hard Disk (up to 10 GiB)

Customized installation

Debian configuration is based on jessie preseed. Ubuntu configuration is based on xenial preseed. A few modifications have been made. Use diff for more details.

Debian/Ubuntu installation

en_US.UTF-8
keymap for standard US keyboard
UTC timezone
NTP enabled (default configuration)
full-upgrade
unattended-upgrades
/dev/vda1 mounted on / using ext4 filesystem (all files in one partition)
no swap

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