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DEPRECATED - Packer Example - Ubuntu 14.04 Vagrant Box using Ansible provisioner
https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1404

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DEPRECATED - Packer Example - Ubuntu 14.04 Vagrant Box using Ansible provisioner

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-ubuntu-1404
• Owner: geerlingguy
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-08-11T16:11:38.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-06-02T18:18:51.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-29T09:36:05.658Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: ansible, box, image, iso, lts, minimal, packer, ubuntu, ubuntu1404, vagrant, virtualbox
• Language: Shell
• Homepage: https://app.vagrantup.com/geerlingguy/boxes/ubuntu1404
• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 82
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 42
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Packer Example - Ubuntu 14.04 minimal Vagrant Box

> **DEPRECATED**: This project is no longer maintained, and though the base box is still available on Vagrant Cloud/Atlas, it will not be updated anymore as of 2019. Ubuntu 14.04 no longer receives active support from Canonical, therefore any users still running this version should upgrade to a newer, supported Ubuntu release.

**Current Ubuntu Version Used**: 14.04.5

**Pre-built Vagrant Box**:

  - [`vagrant init geerlingguy/ubuntu1404`](https://vagrantcloud.com/geerlingguy/boxes/ubuntu1404)

  - See older versions: http://files.midwesternmac.com/

This example build configuration installs and configures Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64 minimal using Ansible, and then generates a Vagrant box file for VirtualBox.

The example can be modified to use more Ansible roles, plays, and included playbooks to fully configure (or partially) configure a box file suitable for deployment for development environments.

## Requirements

The following software must be installed/present on your local machine before you can use Packer to build the Vagrant box file:

  - [Packer](http://www.packer.io/)

  - [Vagrant](http://vagrantup.com/)

  - [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) (if you want to build the VirtualBox box)

  - [Ansible](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html)

## Usage

Make sure all the required software (listed above) is installed, then cd to the directory containing this README.md file, and run:

    $ packer build -var 'version=1.2.0' ubuntu1404.json

After a few minutes, Packer should tell you the box was generated successfully, and the box was uploaded to Vagrant Cloud.

> **Note**: This configuration includes a post-processor that pushes the built box to Vagrant Cloud (which requires a `VAGRANT_CLOUD_TOKEN` environment variable to be set); remove the `vagrant-cloud` post-processor from the Packer template to build the box locally and not push it to Vagrant Cloud. You don't need to specify a `version` variable either, if not using the `vagrant-cloud` post-processor.

## Testing built boxes

There's an included Vagrantfile that allows quick testing of the built Vagrant boxes. From this same directory, run the following command after building the box:

    $ vagrant up

## License

MIT license.

## Author Information

Created in 2014 by [Jeff Geerling](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/), author of [Ansible for DevOps](https://www.ansiblefordevops.com/).