Packer Templates

This is my public collection of Packer templates.

The base templates use the proxmox-iso builder. Future derived templates will use proxmox-clone.

Building

I want to make the building of these templates as simple as possible. To build the template, run:

packer build base/{os}

Setting up Vault

Secrets are managed using HashiCorp Vault.

First, install Vault on your system. Then you need to have a running instance of Vault, this can be in a docker container somewhere, or you can start it in a terminal window with vault server.

Next, log into the server, don't forget to set your VAULT_ADDR environment variable. If using a local instance, run export VAULT_ADDR='http://127.0.0.1:8200' and then run

vault login

This will ask for a token, which you can get from the running server window.

Note: This uses the default root account, and is not ideal for production purposes.

Once logged into Vault, you can start setting up a keyvault for proxmox values. Create that by running:

vault secrets enable -version=2 -path=secrets kv

And then create and populate your proxmox secret.

vault kv put secrets/proxmox proxmox_url=https://<proxmox_host>:8006/api2/json
vault kv patch secrets/proxmox proxmox_node=<your_node>
vault kv patch secrets/proxmox proxmox_username=<your_username>@pam
vault kv patch secrets/proxmox proxmox_password=<your_password>
vault kv patch secrets/proxmox proxmox_skip_tls_verify=<value>

Finally, before you can run a packer build, export your vault token with the following:

export VAULT_TOKEN=`vault token lookup --format=json | jq -r '.data.id'`