Dyn Bento

Bento is a project that encapsulates Packer templates for building Vagrant base boxes and AWS AMIs

This is a fork, of the Chef Bento project, and will incorporate some elements from the automation/packrats repo as appropriate.

Pre-built Boxes

TODO:

-[ ] build boxes and place on Artifactory

The following boxes are built from this repository's templates and available from Artifactory

	VirtualBox (5.0+)
ubuntu-12.04	todo
ubuntu-14.04	todo

Using Pre-built Boxes

TODO: fill me in

Build Your Own Bento Boxes

Using bento

In the bin directory of this repo is the bento utility which wraps packer as well as allowing other related functionality. This is an opinionated tool that the project uses for building the hosted boxes listed above.

Usage: bento [SUBCOMMAND [options]]

build     :   build one or more templates
help      :   prints this help message
list      :   list all templates in project
normalize :   normalize one or more templates

To build multiple templates for all providers (VirtualBox, Fusion, Parallels, etc):

$ bin/bento build debian-8.1-amd64 debian-8.1-i386

To build a box for a single provider:

$ bin/bento build --only=virtualbox-iso debian-8.1-amd64

Using packer

Templates can still be built directly by packer

To build a template for all providers (VirtualBox, Fusion, Parallels):

$ packer build debian-8.2-amd64.json

To build a template only for a list of specific providers:

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso debian-8.2-amd64.json

To build a template for all providers except a list of specific providers:

$ packer build -except=parallels-iso,vmware-iso debian-8.2-amd64.json

If you want to use a another mirror site, use the mirror user variable.

$ packer build -var 'mirror=http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/debian-cdimage/release' debian-8.2-amd64.json

Congratulations! You now have box(es) in the ../builds directory that you can then add to Vagrant and start testing cookbooks.

Notes:

• The box_basename can be overridden like other Packer vars with -var 'box_basename=debian-8.2'

Bugs and Issues

Please use GitHub issues to report bugs, features, or other problems.

License & Authors & Acknowledgements Oh My

Project forked from Chef Bento

These basebox templates were converted from veewee definitions originally based on work done by Tim Dysinger to make "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) modular baseboxes. Thanks Tim!

Chef-zero provisioning copied from Threat Stack packer templates