https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/aether-packer
https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/aether-packer
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/aether-packer
- Owner: opennetworkinglab
- Created: 2025-02-27T00:08:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-26T23:58:31.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-02T14:14:34.326Z (5 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 31.3 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.markdown
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# Aether Jenkins Packer
[Packer][1] is a tool for automatically creating VM and container images,
configuring them and post-processing them into standard output formats.
We build the CI images via Packer.
## Building
You'll need to [install Packer][2], of course.
The Packer configuration is divided into build-specific variables,
output-specific templates and a set of shared provisioning scripts. To do a
specific build, combine the template for the desired output artifact type with
a variable file. To build a new baseline instance the following would be done:
```
packer build -var-file=vars/cloud-env.json -var-file=vars/centos.json templates/baseline.json
```
**NOTE:** vars/cloud-env.json is a gitignored file as it contains private
information. There is a vars/cloud-env.json.example file that may be used as a
base for creating the one needed.
From a high level, the build process is:
* Boot a specified base image in any defined clouds.
* Run a set of shell scripts, listed in the template's shell provisioner
section, to do any configuration required by the builder.
* Execute a shutdown of the running instance in the clouds.
* Execute the cloud specific method for creating a new image from the shutdown
instance
* Perform the cloud specific method for deleting the shutdown instance
[1]: https://www.packer.io/
[2]: https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/setup.html