packer

Setup a system for running Packer.

For information about PTA and how to use it with this Ansible role please visit https://github.com/Forcepoint/fp-pta-overview/blob/master/README.md

Requirements

None

Role Variables

REQUIRED

None

OPTIONAL

• packer_version: The version of Packer to install.
• packer_checksum: The checksum for the Packer binaries.
• packer_download_url: The website to download the Packer executable from. Useful if you need to access the Hashicorp site through a proxy like Artifactory.
• packer_vsphere_iso_url: The url to download the vsphere-iso plugin, if you want that available. At the time of this writing, it is said that the vsphere-iso plugin code is going to be merged into the Packer code base, so in the future the plugin will not require a separate install. For now, the file is hosted in Amazon S3 by default, which is crazy slow to download. I've found hosting the file in a local Artifactory repository yields much faster downloads.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    packer_version: 1.2.5
    packer_checksum: sha256:bc58aa3f3db380b76776e35f69662b49f3cf15cf80420fc81a15ce971430824c
    packer_download_url: https://artifactory.COMPANY.com/artifactory/releases.hashicorp.com
    packer_vsphere_iso_url: https://artifactory.COMPANY.com/artifactory/software/Hashicorp/Packer/jetbrains-infra/2.3/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux
  roles:
  - role: packer

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

Jeremy Cornett jeremy.cornett@forcepoint.com