customerimage.md

Customer image builder

The customer image builder deploys a new server in CloudControl, runs any configured provisioners against that server, then clones it to create a new customer image.

Settings

• mcp_region (Required) is the CloudControl region code (e.g. AU, NA, EU, etc).
• mcp_user (Required) is the CloudControl user name.
  Can also be specified via the MCP_USER environment variable.
• mcp_password (Required) is the CloudControl password.
  Can also be specified via the MCP_PASSWORD environment variable.
• datacenter (Required) is the datacenter Id (must be MCP 2.0).
• networkdomain (Required) 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 (Required) is the name of the image used to create the server.
• target_image (Required) is the name of the customer image to create.
• use_private_ipv4 (Optional) 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 (Optional) is your client machine's public (external) IP address.
  Required if use_private_ipv4 is not set.
• initial_admin_password (Required unless image does not require) The administrator password to use when deploying the server from which the image will be created.

Sample 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",
			"initial_admin_password": "sn4u$ag3$!",
			"client_ip": "1.2.3.4",
			"communicator": "ssh"
		}
	],
	"provisioners": [
		{
			"type": "shell",
			"inline": [
				"echo 'my_password' | sudo -S su",
				"sudo apt-get update"
			]
		}
	]
}