Packer Templates: Debian 8 (jessie)

Notice: This repository is no longer maintained as Debian 8/Jessie is oldstable. For the current stable Debian release, see packer-debian9.

Fully automated installation of debian 8, powered by:

• Packer
• Ansible
• Debian Preseed

Dependencies

• Packer 0.10.2+

Key Features

• Partitioning with LVM
• Enables persistent network names
• Enables serial console
• Uses ansible for provisioning

qemu-kvm

Install Host Dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get install qemu-kvm

RHEL/CentOS

yum install qemu-kvm

Build

packer build packer-debian8-qemu-kvm.json

Output

Output directory defaults to ./output/, configurable with -var 'output_dir=/path/to/dir'