linode/packer-builder-linode

Packer Builder plugin for Linode Images

Archived

This project has been merged into Packer as a builder.

The documentation can be found here: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/linode/

The code can be found here: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/tree/master/builder/linode

packer-builder-linode's Issues

"Error creating image: [404] Not found" if source image=linode/centos7

General:

• Have you removed all sensitive information, including but not limited to access keys and passwords?
• Have you checked to ensure there aren't other open or closed pull requests for the same bug/feature/question?

---

Bug Reporting

Possible duplicate of #10 (comment)

Expected Behavior

image is created from Linode disk

Actual Behavior

Linode is shutdown and Packer exits with an error like ==> linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. packer build ./packer/linode-build-marketplace.json
2. wait for provisioners to complete without error and Linode to shut down
3. image create fails with (HTTP?) 404

Environment Specifications

❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

❯ go version
go version go1.12.4 linux/amd64

❯ packer --version
1.3.5

Env var LINODE_TOKEN is set and is sourced by Packer to assign linode_token in the template. The token has all privileges for the Linode cloud manager account.

Screenshots, Code Blocks, and Logs

PACKER_LOG interleaved with output from packer build

2019/04/25 17:18:43 [INFO] (telemetry) ending ansible
==> linode: Shutting down Linode...
==> linode: Creating image...
2019/04/25 17:20:08 ui error: ==> linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found
==> linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found
2019/04/25 17:20:09 [INFO] (telemetry) ending linode
2019/04/25 17:20:09 ui error: Build 'linode' errored: Error creating image: [404] Not found
2019/04/25 17:20:09 Builds completed. Waiting on interrupt barrier...
2019/04/25 17:20:09 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"}
Build 'linode' errored: Error creating image: [404] Not found
2019/04/25 17:20:09 ui error: 

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
2019/04/25 17:20:09 machine readable: linode,error []string{"Error creating image: [404] Not found"}
2019/04/25 17:20:09 ui error: --> linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
2019/04/25 17:20:09 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
2019/04/25 17:20:09 waiting for all plugin processes to complete...
2019/04/25 17:20:09 /home/kbingham/Sites/netfoundry/bin/packer-1.3.5: plugin process exited
2019/04/25 17:20:09 /home/kbingham/.packer.d/plugins/packer-builder-linode: plugin process exited
2019/04/25 17:20:09 /home/kbingham/Sites/netfoundry/bin/packer-1.3.5: plugin process exited

Packer template builders[]

    "builders": [
        {
            "type": "linode",
            "linode_token": "{{user `linode_token`}}",
    
            "region": "us-central",
            "swap_size": 256,
            "image": "linode/centos7",
            "instance_type": "g6-nanode-1",
            "instance_label": "packerbuilder-{{timestamp}}",
    
            "image_label": "nf-{{user `img_type`}}-{{user `release_version`}}",
            "image_description": "nf-{{user `img_type`}}-{{user `release_version`}}",
            
            "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh_username`}}"
        }
    ],

Additional Notes

---

The Linode Community is a great place to get additional support.

Build Issues

Hi,

I may be using this project incorrectly, but when checking out master, i cannot build the plugin, the error is

go build -o packer-builder-linode
# github.com/dradtke/packer-builder-linode/linode
../../go/src/github.com/dradtke/packer-builder-linode/linode/builder.go:36:61: undefined: packer.Cache
make: *** [build] Error 2

If i remove the reference to packer.Cache in the function signature, then it builds fine. However, potentially unrelated, the packer build completes but then it's unable to create the image -
linode: Error creating image: [404] Not found

Is there another branch I should be using?

Thanks

Change LICENSE to MPL/2 for compatibility with upstream Packer project

Adopt the parent project license so that this plugin may be included in the parent project:

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/LICENSE

Cleanup of temporary Linode

This might be my misunderstanding of how Packer functions, but the image creation here seems to leave behind a temporary Linode. Ideally, I'd like to have this Linode be deleted after the image is created.

Is there a clean way to do that in the Packer builder?

Use github.com/linode/linodego to use Linode APIv4 and reduce code

Hi @dradtke !

I've recently taken the community started terraform-provider to official status. I would love to do the same with this project.

I think a first step would be to convert this project to one that consumes the linodego wrapper for the v4 API.

packer-builder-linode vs linode imaging

Maybe we can have some discussion to help linode newbies get started...

One option is to install a distro via Linode's default images. Then we can modify that and create a base image. How does that compare to using packer? Also I'd like to know the difference between building a linux distro with packer for linode and building an AMI with AWS's AMI builder... They're analogous, yes?