CentOS Packer Build Project

Packer automation to build CentOS virtual machines for use with Vagrant. To use these boxes in your own project, type one of the following commands:

• CentOS 7: vagrant init dharmab/centos7.
• CentOS 6: vagrant init dharmab/centos6.

The box versioning on Atlas follows Semantic Versioning.

I haven't been maintaining this lately because my environment is now Docker/CoreOS based. But it should be pretty simple for someone else to maintain themselves. Just change the following in each Packer template:

• builders.iso_url
• builders.iso_checksum
• post-processors[.type = "atlas"].artifact
• push.name

Quick Build

1. Run setup.py with Python 2 to download Packer
2. Generate an Atlas API key and run export ATLAS_TOKEN="<api key>"
3. If you are not dharmab, edit the JSON templates and change push.name to <atlas organization>/<box name>
4. Run the following commands to push the build to Atlas and queue a build.

bin/packer build centos7.json
bin/packer build centos6.json

Box Information

This section should be considered the 'Public API' for the purposes of Semantic Versioning.

• The artifact(s) of this Packer template are Vagrant boxes for CentOS 6 and CentOS 7.
• VirtualBox is a supported provider.
  • The VirtualBox boxes include the VirtualBox Guest Additions for VirtualBox 5.
• All packages in the core group are installed.
• The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository (EPEL) is enabled.
• All installed packages are fully up to date at build time.
• The timezone is set to UTC.
• The language is set to US English.
• The keyboard is set to US.
• The firewall is disabled.
• SELinux is disabled.
• requiretty is disabled in the sudoers configuration.
• UseDNS is disabled in the SSH configuration.
• The root password is vagrant.
• A user named vagrant is configured.
  • The password for the vagrant user is vagrant.
  • The vagrant user has full passwordless sudo privileges.
  • The vagrant user has the standard insecure Vagrant SSH public key as an authorized key.