packer-plugins-ddcloud

CloudControl plugins for Packer

Plugins for Hashicorp Packer that target Dimension Data CloudControl.

Note: this is a work-in-progress; it's not production-ready yet.

Currently, the following builder plugins are available:

• ddcloud-customerimage Deploys a server in CloudControl, runs configured provisioners (if any), then clones the server to create a Customer image.
  The deployed server is destroyed once cloning is complete.

Currently, the following post-processor plugins are available:

• ddcloud-customerimage-import Converts a VMWare .vmx artifact to .ovf format, uploads it to Cloud Control, and imports it as a customer image.

We're also planning to create a plugin that uploads an OVF and imports it to create a customer image.

Installing

Download the appropriate package for the latest release. Unzip the executable and place it in ~/.packer.d/plugins.

Needs Packer and OSX or Linux. Both curl and VMWare's ovftool must be in a directory that's on your $PATH.

Building

Needs Packer <= v0.8.6 (you can run the latest version of Packer, but we can only build against v0.8.6 or lower), Go >= 1.7, and GNU Make.

Sorry, the dependencies are a bit messy at the moment.

1. Fetch correct dependency versions by running ./init.sh (one-time only).
2. Run make dev.

Example configurations

Create a new customer image in Cloud Control

build.json:

{
	"builders": [
		{
			"type": "ddcloud-customerimage",
			"mcp_region": "AU",
			"datacenter": "AU9",
			"networkdomain": "MyNetworkDomain",
			"vlan": "MyVLAN",
            "source_image": "Ubuntu 14.04 2 CPU",
			"target_image": "packertest",
			"client_ip": "1.2.3.4",
			"communicator": "ssh"
		}
	],
	"provisioners": [
		{
			"type": "shell",
			"inline": [
				"echo 'my_password' | sudo -S su",
				"sudo apt-get update"
			]
		}
	]
}

The ddcloud-customerimage builder plugin supports the following settings:

• datacenter is the datacenter Id (must be MCP 2.0).
• networkdomain is the name of the network domain in which to create the server.
• vlan is the name of the VLAN to which the server will be attached.
• source_image is the name of the image used to create the server.
• target_image is the name of the customer image to create.
• use_private_ipv4 configures the builder to use private IPv4 addresses rather than public ones (via NAT rules).
  Set this to true if you're running packer from inside the MCP 2.0 network domain where the image will be created.
• client_ip is your client machine's public (external) IP address.
  Required if use_private_ipv4 is not set.

Specify CloudControl username and password using MCP_USER and MCP_PASSWORD environment variables.

Create a new VMWare virtual machine locally, and import it into Cloud Control as a customer image

build.json:

{
	"builders": [
		{
			"type": "vmware-iso",
			"iso_url": "./iso/ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso",
			"iso_checksum": "d2d939ca0e65816790375f6826e4032f",
			"iso_checksum_type": "md5",
			"output_directory": "./vmx",
			"ssh_port": 22,
			"ssh_username": "packer",
			"ssh_password": "packer",
			"ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
			"boot_command": [
				"<enter><wait><f6><esc><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
				"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
				"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
				"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
				"/install/vmlinuz<wait>",
				" auto<wait>",
				" console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",
				" console-setup/layoutcode=us<wait>",
				" console-setup/modelcode=pc105<wait>",
				" debconf/frontend=noninteractive<wait>",
				" debian-installer=en_US<wait>",
				" fb=false<wait>",
				" initrd=/install/initrd.gz<wait>",
				" kbd-chooser/method=us<wait>",
				" keyboard-configuration/layout=USA<wait>",
				" keyboard-configuration/variant=USA<wait>",
				" locale=en_US<wait>",
				" netcfg/get_domain=vm<wait>",
				" netcfg/get_hostname=packer<wait>",
				" grub-installer/bootdev=/dev/sda<wait>",
				" noapic<wait>",
				" preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg",
				" -- <wait>",
				"<enter><wait>"
			],
			"boot_wait": "10s",
			"disk_size": 81920,
			"vm_name": "ubuntu-from-packer",
			"vmx_data": {
				"cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
				"memsize": "1024",
				"numvcpus": "1"
			},
			"guest_os_type": "ubuntu-64",
			"http_directory": ".",
			"shutdown_command": "echo 'packer'|sudo -S shutdown -P now",
			"headless":"true"
		}
	],
	"provisioners": [
		{
			"type": "shell",
			"inline": [
				"echo 'packer' | sudo -S true",
				"sudo apt-get update",
				"sudo apt-get install -y open-vm-tools"
			]
		}
	],
	"post-processors": [
		[
			{
				"type": "ddcloud-customerimage-import",
				"mcp_region": "AU",
				"mcp_user": "my_mcp_user",
				"mcp_password": "my_mcp_password",
				"datacenter": "AU9",
				"target_image": "ubuntu-from-packer",
				"ovf_package_prefix": "ubuntu-from-packer"
			}
		]
	]
}

preseed.cfg:

choose-mirror-bin mirror/http/proxy string
d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server cryptsetup build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev linux-source dkms nfs-common
d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none
d-i pkgsel/upgrade select full-upgrade
d-i time/zone string UTC
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, ubuntu-server

d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string us
d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US

# Create packer user account.
d-i passwd/user-fullname string packer
d-i passwd/username string packer
d-i passwd/user-password password packer
d-i passwd/user-password-again password packer
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
d-i passwd/user-default-groups packer sudo
d-i passwd/user-uid string 900