Not suitable for production yet
Packer is a tool to create many machine images from a single source. We use it to build ready to use images for major cloud providers.
To generate an image first you need to initialize packer and download all required plugins with
packer init .
Afterwards you can build the images. The builds depends on a few secrets that are defined as variables. We recommend you create a build.sh script that sets all variables for you. Have a look at the example_build.sh file.
./build.sh .
Since the build definitions are split across multiple files you have to run the build on the current folder ".". Just specifying one file will lead to an error.
The image is located in the folder output-ubuntu-2204-amd64-qemu. The default OS user and password are ubuntu:ubuntu. Upon first login you are required to change your password.
Packer ships with builtin code quality tools. We recommend to run the following two commands before pushing changes.
packer fmt . packer validate .