Packer template for Sabayon

Now you can build fresh vagrant, virtualbox and VMware Sabayon images with packer.

those are the variables that can be tweaked:

  "root_username":"root",
  "root_password":"root",
  "build":"DAILY", 
  "build_type":"daily",
  "arch":"amd64",
  "disk_size":"60000",
  "vagrant":"vagrant",
  "flavor":"SpinBase"

while some of them are self-explanatory, those are the interesting to punt to a specific build type:

• flavor: you can tweak what iso is going to be converted to an image : "SpinBase", "SpinBase-dev", "Minimal"
• vagrant: if set to vagrant, it will be configured the vagrant user automatically
• build && build_type: it refeers at the location and type of the build

Note: use the images.json for custom builds, vagrant.json is used for Atlas automatic building system

Download the repository and then, choose on what are you interested in:

Vagrant

packer build -var "vagrant=vagrant" -only virtualbox-iso images.json

Note: vagrant images are also available in Hashicorp's Atlas: Sabayon/spinbase-amd64.

If you have Vagrant this should be straightforward:

vagrant init Sabayon/spinbase-amd64; vagrant up --provider virtualbox

You can always download the boxes using Atlas providers link:

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/Sabayon/boxes/spinbase-amd64/versions/**[TAG]**/providers/virtualbox.box

• here [TAG] is the box version (e.g. v0.10 => https://atlas.hashicorp.com/Sabayon/boxes/spinbase-amd64/versions/0.10/providers/virtualbox.box)

Virtualbox

If you want to build a SpinBase, withouth vagrant credentials, you have to run:

packer build -var "flavor=SpinBase" -var "vagrant=" -only virtualbox-iso images.json

Note: This will produce a vagrant box as well

VMware

packer build -var "flavor=SpinBase" -var "vagrant=" -only vmware-iso images.json

QEMU

packer build -var "flavor=SpinBase" -var "vagrant=" -only qemu images.json

Docker

docker build --rm --no-cache -t packer-sabayon .
docker run --privileged=true --device /dev/vboxdrv:/dev/vboxdrv  -v $(pwd):/root --rm -ti packer-sabayon:latest /usr/bin/packer build -var 'flavor=Server' -var 'vagrant=vagrant' -var 'guest_additions=virtualbox' -var 'extra=extra' -only virtualbox-iso images.json    

Credentials

The root user has the root password, so if you are going to deploy this image, you want to change that.

Optional: If you enabled the build with vagrant, a user "vagrant" with password vagrant will be created. That can be accessed by issuing "vagrant ssh" (pubkeys are the insecure ones needed by Vagrant).