Hari Sekhon - HashiCorp Packer templates

Packer templates for building AWS AMI and portable OVA virtual machines images.

Useful for AWS EC2 & EKS, IoT edge sites, Kubernetes base servers etc.

Bare metal servers can be installed using each Linux distro's native automated installers.

Virtual Machines as appliances in portable OVA format are 100% automated using the installers above.

AWS Custom AMI use cases include adding tooling, or security agents to EKS cluster nodes for Corporate Compliance.

The primary templates are for the main Linux distributions:

• Amazon Linux - based off existing AMI
• Ubuntu - using Ubuntu AutoInstaller
• Debian - using Debian Preseeding
• Redhat - using Redhat Kickstart
  • Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • CentOS (end-of-life)
  • Rocky Linux (CentOS replacement)
  • Fedora

VM OVA appliances can be created in any number of different virtualization systems supported by Packer.

You must install your virtualization system before running Packer.

The following builds are provided for these combinations of Linux distros, arches and virtualization systems:

• AWS EC2 / EKS AMI
  • x86_64:
    • aws_eks.amazonlinux2.x86_64.pkr.hcl
• VirtualBox
  • x86_64:
    • debian-x86_64.vbox.pkr.hcl
    • fedora-x86_64.vbox.pkr.hcl
    • rocky-x86_64.vbox.pkr.hcl
    • ubuntu-x86_64.vbox.pkr.hcl
• Qemu
  • x86_64:
    • debian-x86_64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • fedora-x86_64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • rocky-x86_64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • ubuntu-x86_64.qemu.pkr.hcl
  • arm64:
    • debian-arm64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • fedora-arm64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • rocky-arm64.qemu.pkr.hcl
    • ubuntu-arm64.qemu.pkr.hcl
• Tart
  • arm64:
    • debian-arm64.tart.http.pkr.hcl
    • fedora-arm64.tart.http.pkr.hcl
    • rocky-arm64.tart.http.pkr.hcl
    • [ubuntu-arm64.tart.http.pkr.hcl](https://github.com/HariSekhon/Packer/blob/main/ubuntu-