anka-packer-templates

Hashicorp Packer templates for building Veertu Anka virtual machine images.

Requirements

1. Install asdf for tool version management (Recommended)
2. Install Veertu Anka Flow

   brew cask install anka-flow
   

3. License Anka Flow

   sudo anka license activate <key>
   

4. Install Packer (<= v1.4.5, See packer-builder-veertu-anka#16)

   asdf plugin-add packer && asdf install packer 1.4.5
   

5. Install Packer Builder for Anka
6. Ensure you have the macOS Catalina installer locally at /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app
7. To build the Xcode image, ensure $FASTLANE_USER and $FASTLANE_PASSWORD are set in your local dev environment. Fastlane uses Apple Developer credentials to fetch Xcode from developer.apple.com.

   export FASTLANE_USER=johnny@appleseed.com && export FASTLANE_PASSWORD=p@$$WorD
   

Notes

VPN software is known to interfere with VM interaction; please disable it before continuing.

Build

To run packer build commands, first cd to the packer/ directory in this repository.

• All images are ultimately based on a vanilla image, which must be build first:

  ⚠️ Requires 30GB free disk space and takes ~30 minutes!

  packer build macos-vanilla-10.15.json
  

• To build the general CI image (Uses Vanilla as base):

  ⚠️ Requires 30GB free disk space and takes ~15 minutes!

  packer build macos-ci-10.15.json
  

• To build the Xcode image (Uses CI as base):

  ⚠️ Requires 40GB free disk space and takes ~45 minutes!

  packer build macos-xcode-10.15.json