BitswarmBox - Packer Convenience Wrapper for building Bitswarm.io

Packer templates for provisioning host operating system environments for the Bitswarm ecosystem.

Before building any of these templates, you will need to ensure you have suitable AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables available.

Creates image suitable for general purpose usage, including Puppet 4 pre-configured against puppet master server.

A puppet master server, preloaded with Puppet 4, PuppetDB 4, Facter, Hiera, and mCollective.

If the Packer configuration variables puppet_scm_repo and github_webhook_api_token are set in Packer, this repo will be preconfigured for use via r10k.

When this template is built, scripts/local-ssh-key.sh is invoked which will create an RSA keypair locally within keys/ and this will be preloaded into the resulting AMIs.

• AWS api key and secret for user with sufficient permissions
• Github API token for user with "owner" role of repos to be used as r10k sources. Owner is necessary for the ability to interact with the Github API on the repos to install deployment keys.

[sudo] gem install bitswarmbox

bitswarmbox leans on [Packer][] and [VirtualBox][], [VMware Fusion][fusion] or [VMware Workstation][workstation] for building boxes and these will need to available in your $PATH.

bitswarmbox is driven by the bitswarmbox command line tool, and works with artifacts inside it's own working directory. You need to specify a name for the build, a template to work with and the output provider. Something like so:

bitswarmbox build \
  --name=trusty64-empty \
  --template=ubuntu/trusty64 \
  --provider=vmware

This will build a file called trusty64-empty.box in the current directory.

There's lots more to bitswarmbox than building simple empty Vagrant boxes like this, which can be see in the inline help.

Many thanks to the upstream sources from which this derives, most notably Nick Charlton's Boxes.io.

No warranties given, expressed or implied. Use with parental supervision.

http://bitswarm.io/