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packer-graylog2

This repo contains packer templates to build machine images with puppet for graylog2.

Preperation

You have to install the following software: packer librarian-puppet

wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/packer/0.6.1_linux_amd64.zip
sudo unzip -d /usr/local/packer 0.6.1_linux_amd64.zip
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/packer

sudo gem install librarian-puppet --no-ri --no-rdoc

Install required puppet modules:

cd puppet
librarian-puppet install

Usage

At the moment just the amazon-ebs builder is supported.

To build an amazon-ebs AMI run packer:

cd packer
packer build \
    -var 'aws_access_key=Lala' \
    -var 'aws_secret_key=Lulu' \
    -var 'aws_instance_type=m1.small' \
    aws-ebs-trusty-puppet.json

Now you have to wait! Packer will bake a fresh machine image for you. After that, create a new security group and allow following ports: tcp 80/443, udp 12201 Launch an EC2 instance with created AMI and security group.

Open your browser go to https://$PublicIP and login with admin/admin

See puppet/manifests/site.pp and https://github.com/synyx/puppet-graylog2 for custom configuration options.

Default values for aws-ebs-trusty-puppet.json:

packer inspect aws-ebs-trusty-puppet.json
Optional variables and their defaults:

  aws_access_key    = 
  aws_ami_name      = graylog2_trusty_x86_64-{{timestamp}}
  aws_instance_type = t1.micro
  aws_region        = eu-west-1
  aws_secret_key    = 
  aws_source_ami    = ami-41bf6c36
  ssh_username      = ubuntu

Builders:

  amazon-ebs

Provisioners:

  shell
  puppet-masterless

Note: If your build names contain user variables or template
functions such as 'timestamp', these are processed at build time,
and therefore only show in their raw form here.