Packer templates for building GOV.UK base boxes for Vagrant
The code here is no longer used or maintained.
At the time it was retired, in November 2014, this code was known to work. We
have retired this repo as its contents have been merged with an internal
repository in a bid to simplify the way that we create VM templates, such that
we can create VMware and Vagrant templates from the same configuration.
This repository contains Packer templates for building virtual machines for the GOV.UK environment.
Currently supports:
On the following hypervisors:
brew tap homebrew/binary
brew install packer
# Build all the boxes (currently Ubuntu Precise and Trusty for Virtualbox and VMWare Fusion)
packer build template.json
# Upload the box to GOV.UK's Amazon S3 bucket (assuming you've set up s3cmd)
s3cmd sync --acl-public govuk_dev_precise64_$(date "+%Y%m%d").box 's3://gds-boxes/'