Packer templates for Mint Cinnamon

Building with Packer

Requirements:

• Packer: sudo apt-get install packer
• VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Building:
packer build core_template.json

Expected results:

output-virtualbox-iso
├── mint-cinnamon-22.ovf
└── mint-cinnamon-22-disk001.vmdk

How it works, an overview

sequenceDiagram
    Packer->>Internet: download iso
    Packer-->>Webserver: start and host preseed file
    Packer-->>VirtualMachine: start with iso
    Packer-->>VirtualMachine: send boot command via keystrokes
    VirtualMachine-->>Webserver: download and execute preseed
    VirtualMachine-->>VirtualMachine: reboot and start ssh server
    Packer-->>VirtualMachine: execute provisioners (scripts and playbook) via ssh
    Packer-->>VirtualMachine: stop
    Packer-->>VirtualMachine: export using default post-processor

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Acknowledgments

Special thanks for the work in providing the code on which this is based on to. Have a look at their version of "packer-linuxmint" too.

• https://github.com/rmoesbergen
• https://github.com/ajxb