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Ansible Role: Packer

Uses Ansible to kick off Packer builds with several included reference builds (currently RHEL7 and VYOS).

Requirements

  • Packer binary (will be called via command module)
  • date package installed on source system
  • If installing from source, Git is required

Role variables

Action variable will determine whether the systems are created or deployed and tested. Most often the role will be called twice to build and subsequently test the system. action: [ build, test ]

You can include your vsphere information in the role or the inventory vsphere: vcenter_server: vcenter.infrabuild.xyz cluster: main datacenter: Datacenter datastore: Datastore1 folder: Templates network: BUILDNET username: administrator@vsphere.infrabuild.xyz password: BadPassword1234$ esxi_hostname: 192.168.5.202

In order to update Red Hat based systems, you will need your Red Hat Subscription Manager login ID and pool id.

rhsm: username: Red Hat Subscription Manager username password: Red Hat Subscriptoin Manager password pool_id: Red Hat Subscripton Manager Pool ID

Example Inventory

all: children: build: hosts: localhost: vars: config_directory: /build_config artifact_directory: /build_artifact vsphere: vcenter_server: vcenter.infrabuild.xyz cluster: main datacenter: Datacenter datastore: Datastore1 folder: Templates network: BUILDNET username: administrator@vsphere.infrabuild.xyz password: BadPassword1234$ esxi_hostname: 192.168.5.202 env: VMWARE_USER: "{{ vsphere.username }}" VMWARE_PASSWORD: "{{ vsphere.password }}" RHSM_PASSWORD: testpassword PACKER_CACHE_DIR: "{{ artifact_directory }}" packer_default: variables: ssh_username: vyos

Example Playbook

  • hosts: build

    roles:

    • role: image_creation vars: action: build
    • role: image_creation vars: action: test