Packer OVFtool post processor

Just another OVF tool post processor.

Requirements

• VMware's OVF Tool.
• OpenSSL command.

Usage

Add the post-processor to your packer template:

    {
      "type": "ovftool",
      "target_format": "ova",
      "appliance_name": "{{user `vm_name`}}",
      "output_dir": "{{user `output_dir`}}",
      "keep_ovf": "{{user `keep_ovf`}}"
    },

Available configuration options:

Key	Desc	Default
ovftool_path	Path to the ovftool binary if it cannot be found in the path.	ovftool
output_dir	The directory where to save the resulting appliance/s.	output/packer_{{ .BuildName }}_{{ .Provider }}_ovftool
keep_input_artifact	Wether or not to keep the input artifact	false
target_format	Either ovf or ova. Use keep_ovf and ova if you want both OVF and OVA	ovf
keep_ovf	If target_format is OVA the initial OVF export will be deleted unless this param is true	false
appliance_name	The name to give to the resulting appliance

Installation

You can grab pre-built binaries from:

https://github.com/chirauki/packer-post-processor-ovftool/releases/latest

And add the post-processor to ~/.packerconfig:

{
  "post-processors": {
    "ovftool": "packer-post-processor-ovftool"
  }
}

Or if you want to build it yourself, run:

$ go get github.com/chirauki/packer-post-processor-ovftool
$ go install github.com/chirauki/packer-post-processor-ovftool

And add the post-processor to ~/.packerconfig.

License and Authors

• Author:: Marc Cirauqui (marc.cirauqui@abiquo.com)

Copyright:: 2014, Abiquo

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.