packer_ubuntu_xenial

Packer Build For Ubuntu Xenial

This repo is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes. We use these boxes internally at Princeton University Libraries to automatically build our images.

Using packer

Templates can still be built directly by packer

To build a template for all providers (VirtualBox, Fusion, Parallels):

$ packer build ubuntu1604.json

To build a template only for a list of specific providers:

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso ubuntu1604.json

If you want to use a another mirror site, use the mirror user variable.

$ packer build -var 'mirror=http://some.local.mirror.edu/pub/Linux/ubuntu-cdimage/release' ubuntu1604.json

Congratulations! You now have box(es) in the ../builds directory that you can then add to Vagrant