packer.md

Packer Builds

The packer source code is based off chef/bento packer. Currently, we are only supporting rocky8 but have the structure setup in a way that we could add more OSes, eg rocky9, in the future.

Prereqs

• Ansible
• Packer

Running Builds

QEMU Rocky8 x86_64

cd packer
packer build \
    --var-file="os_pkrvars/rocky/rocky-8-x86.pkrvars.hcl" \
    --only=qemu.vm \
    --on-error=ask .
cd ../

OR

./pkr.sh qemu-rocky8

QEMU Rocky8 aarch64

cd packer
packer build \
    --var-file="os_pkrvars/rocky/rocky-8-aarch64.pkrvars.hcl" \
    --only=qemu.vm \
    --on-error=ask .
cd ../

OR

./pkr.sh qemu-rocky8 aarch