packer example

http-preseed.cfg

# Installation
# ============

# Based off Chad Thompson's:
# https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chad-thompson/packer-example/master/ubuntu-simple-preseed.cfg

# Clock and Timezone
# ------------------

# ### Hardware Clock

# Setting the hardware clock to UTC is considered best practice and may be
# assumed by some pacakges

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true

# ### Timezone

# Generally the server timezone should be set to a value which is logically tied
# to the purpose of the server. The generic nature of this vagrant box lends
# itself to 'GMT' as it is the global time standard.

d-i time/zone string GMT



# Account Setup
# -------------

# ### User Credentials

# It is conventional to create a user named 'vagrant' with a password of
# 'vagrant' which vagrant will login as. Please note that these credentials are
# public knowledge and you should never have this account on a public server.

d-i passwd/user-fullname string packer
d-i passwd/username string packer
d-i passwd/user-password password packer
d-i passwd/user-password-again password packer
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true

# ### Home Directory Encryption

# The home directory is not encrypted to aviod any issues that this may cause.

d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false

# Partitioning
# ------------

# ### LVM Partitioning

# The entire disk is partitioned using LVM and any prompts that LVM partitioning
# raises are confirmed automatically.

d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic

# Old LVM partitions are overwritten, pre-existing raid partitions are removed.

d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true

# The ubuntu installer will prompt for confirmation of the partitioning
# strategies.

d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true

# Packages & Updates
# ------------------

# ### No proxy

# By default there is no proxy set for the mirror.

d-i mirror/http/proxy string

# ### No automatic updates

# Automatic updates are not applied, everything is updated manually.
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none

# ### Ubuntu server

# The standard ubuntu server

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard
d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false

# ### OpenSSH Server

# Vagrant requires the OpenSSH server to be installed in order to be able to
# manage the VM.

d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server

# Boot loader installation
# ------------------------

# The default boot loader (grub) is installed as the boot loader on the server
# and all prompts which it throws up are automatically confirmed.

d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true

# Complete installation
# ---------------------

# Ubuntu show a final message once the installation is complete. This message is
# affirmed so it doesn't block the installation process.

d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note

packer-example.json

{
	"variables": {
		"Name": "test",
		"aws_access_key": "",
		"aws_secret_key": ""
	},
	"builders": [
		{
			"type": "virtualbox-iso",
			"guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",
			"iso_url":
				"http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso",
			"iso_checksum": "769474248a3897f4865817446f9a4a53",
			"iso_checksum_type": "md5",
			"ssh_username": "packer",
			"ssh_password": "packer",
			"ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
			"shutdown_command": "echo 'packer' | sudo -S shutdown -P now",
			"http_directory": "http",
			"boot_command": [
				"<esc><esc><enter><wait>",
				"/install/vmlinuz noapic ",
				"preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ",
				"debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us ",
				"hostname={{ .Name }} ",
				"fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive ",
				"keyboard-configuration/modelcode=SKIP keyboard-configuration/layout=USA ",
				"keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false ",
				"initrd=/install/initrd.gz -- <enter>"
			]
		}
	]
}