Build Automated Machine Images for AIL

Build a virtual machine for AIL based on Ubuntu 18.04 server (for VirtualBox or VMWare).

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Packer from the Packer website
• tree -> sudo apt install tree (on deployment side)

Usage

In the file scripts/bootstrap.sh, set the value of AIL_BASEURL according to the IP address you will associate to your VM (for example: http://172.16.100.100).

Launch the generation with the VirtualBox builder:

$ packer build -only=virtualbox-iso ail.json

A VirtualBox image will be generated and stored in the folder output-virtualbox-iso.

The sha1 and sha512 checksums of the generated VM will be stored in the files packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox-iso_sha1.checksum and packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox-iso_sha512.checksum respectively.

If you want to build an image for VMWare you will need to install it and use the VMWare builder with the command:

$ packer build -only=vmware-iso ail.json

You can also launch all builders in parallel.