Vagrant Packer plugin

What Is

Vagrant Packer plugin allows to compose Packer templates and run them using vagrant and Vagrantfile; it also helps using Chef as provisioner.

Install

Install Vagrant(1.8.1+)
Install Packer (0.8.6+)
vagrant plugin install vagrant-packer-plugin

Configure

Define the following Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  # Mandatory Vagrant Packer Plugin configuration
  config.packer_build.instance_templates = ["<instance_template_json_path>"]
  
  #Optional Chef provisioning configuration
  config.packer_build.cookbooks_url = "<berks_generated_cookbooks_tar_gz_url>"
  
  #Alternative for Chef cookbooks configuration (using Berkshelf)
  config.packer_build.berksfile = "<berksfile_path>"
  
  #Chef Databags configuration
  config.packer_build.databags_url = "<databags_tar_gz_url>"
  config.packer_build.databags_username = "<databags_username>"
  config.packer_build.databags_password = "<databags_password>"
  config.packer_build.ks_template = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alfresco/alfresco-spk/master/ks/ks-centos.cfg"
end

Run

vagrant packer-build from the same folder of your Vagrantfile.

Type vagrant packer-build -h for more info on configuration.

Build

Clone this repository
rm Gemfile.lock ; bundle ; rake build ; vagrant plugin install pkg/vagrant-packer-plugin-0.8.0.gem

Contribute

Fork this project
Code/build your feature
Open Pull Requests only to develop please, as we want master to be the release branch

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