swipswaps/packer-templates

Packer templates for creating Amazon EC2 images, Proxmox templates and Vagrant boxes

Packer templates for creating Amazon EC2 images (HVM only), Proxmox templates (KVM) and Vagrant boxes.

Currently supported images:

WARNING: Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is past its End of Life (EOL).

WARNING: Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is currently approaching its End of Life (EOL) and has entered into the Extended Security Maintenance cycle.

• Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" (version: 12.04.5)
• Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" (version: 14.04.6)
• Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" (version: 16.04.6)
• Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic Beaver" (version: 18.04.4)
• Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" (version: 20.04)

Up to date Vagrant boxes can be found at https://app.vagrantup.com/kwilczynski.

Some of the features that the images include:

• Docker and Docker Compose
• AWS Command Line Interface
• CloudFormation Helper Scripts
• Stable drivers for SR-IOV and Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)
• Backported version of Apt for 12.04
• More recent version of OpenSSL
• Native ZFS support (only 14.04 and 16.04)
• Snapcraft support has been removed from 20.04

Every Vagrant box includes an up-to-date version of VirtualBox Guest Additions, and a very basic system tuning (e.g. network stack, virtual memory, etc.), plus sensible hardening (e.g. Kernel, OpenSSH, etc.).