Description

Bake VM images for reliable cloud native deployments.

Configure

Launch an new instance of CentOS 7 to OpenStack.

SSH to the new instance.

$ ssh centos@<instance-ip-address>

Install git.

$ sudo yum install git -y

Clone this git repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/keithchambers/cloud-patterns-00-bake-vm-image.git

cd to ~/cloud-patterns-00-bake-vm-image.

$ cd ~/cloud-patterns-00-bake-vm-image

Create vars/main.yml file with the appropriate settings.

# url for source image to build from
src_img_url: http://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2c

# url for packer binary
packer_url: https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/packer/packer_0.7.5_linux_amd64.zip

# endpoint, credentials, and settings for openstack environment
os_auth_url: https://cloud.cisco.com:5000/v2.0
os_tenant_name: tenant-name
os_tenant_id: 86e97371ad71450d91b292029ca9a8c2
os_net_id: e7b1ae4f-e0d2-4e24-a48f-b9e6c4933323
os_username: username
os_password: p@55w0Rd

To download the OpenStack authentication end-point and credentials from the Horizon console, go to the Access & Security menu, select the API Access tab, and click Download OpenStack RC File.

Usage

Execute build-img.sh.

$ ./build-img.sh