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Alicloud (Alibaba Cloud) packer provider

This is the official repository for the Alicloud packer provider.
Currently it supports packer version ≥ v0.12.1.

If you are not planning to contribute to this repo, you can download the compiled binaries according to you platform, unzip and move them into the folder under the packer PATH such as /usr/local/packer.

Install

If output similar as following, configurations, you can now start the journey of alicloud with packer support

   alicloud output will be in this color.
   
   ==> alicloud: Force delete flag found, skipping prevalidating Alicloud ECS Image Name
       alicloud: Found Image ID: centos_7_03_64_20G_alibase_20170818.vhd
   ==> alicloud: allocated eip address 121.196.193.14
   ==> alicloud: Instance starting
   ==> alicloud: Waiting for SSH to become available...
   ==> alicloud: This machine's host=121.196.193.14
   ==> alicloud: This machine's host=121.196.193.14
   ==> alicloud: This machine's host=121.196.193.14
   ==> alicloud: Connected to SSH!
   ==> alicloud: Provisioning with shell script: /var/folders/3q/w38xx_js6cl6k5mwkrqsnw7w0000gn/T/packer-shell170579778

Example

Create a simple image with redis installed

{
  "variables": {
    "access_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY`}}",
    "secret_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY`}}"
  },
  "builders": [{
    "type":"alicloud-ecs",
    "access_key":"{{user `access_key`}}",
    "secret_key":"{{user `secret_key`}}",
    "region":"cn-beijing",
    "image_name":"packer_test2",
    "source_image":"centos_7_03_64_20G_alibase_20170818.vhd",
    "ssh_username":"root",
    "instance_type":"ecs.n1.tiny",
    "io_optimized":"true",
    "internet_charge_type":"PayByTraffic",
    "image_force_delete":"true"
  }],
  "provisioners": [{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "sleep 30",
      "yum install redis.x86_64 -y"
    ]
  }]
}

Create a simple image for windows

{
  "variables": {
    "access_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY`}}",
    "secret_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY`}}"
  },
  "builders": [{
    "type":"alicloud-ecs",
    "access_key":"{{user `access_key`}}",
    "secret_key":"{{user `secret_key`}}",
    "region":"cn-beijing",
    "image_name":"packer_test",
    "source_image":"win2008r2_64_ent_sp1_zh-cn_40G_alibase_20170915.vhd",
    "instance_type":"ecs.n1.tiny",
    "internet_charge_type":"PayByTraffic",
    "io_optimized":"true",
    "image_force_delete":"true",
    "communicator": "winrm",
    "winrm_port": 5985,
    "winrm_username": "Administrator",
    "winrm_password": "Test1234",
    "user_data_file": "examples/alicloud/basic/winrm_enable_userdata.ps1"
  }],
  "provisioners": [{
      "type": "powershell",
      "inline": ["dir c:\\"]
  }]
}

Note: Since WinRM is closed by default in the system image. You need enable it by userdata in order to connect to the instance, check winrm_enable_userdata.ps1 for details.

Create a simple image with redis installed and mounted disk

{
  "variables": {
    "access_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY`}}",
    "secret_key": "{{env `ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY`}}"
  },
  "builders": [{
    "type":"alicloud-ecs",
    "access_key":"{{user `access_key`}}",
    "secret_key":"{{user `secret_key`}}",
    "region":"cn-beijing",
    "image_name":"packer_with_data_disk",
    "source_image":"centos_7_03_64_20G_alibase_20170818.vhd",
    "ssh_username":"root",
    "instance_type":"ecs.n1.tiny",
    "internet_charge_type":"PayByTraffic",
    "io_optimized":"true",
    "image_disk_mappings":[{"disk_name":"data1","disk_size":20},{"disk_name":"data1","disk_size":20,"disk_device":"/dev/xvdz"}]
  }],
  "provisioners": [{
    "type": "shell",
    "inline": [
      "sleep 30",
      "yum install redis.x86_64 -y"
    ]
  }]
}

Note: Images can become deprecated after a while; run aliyun ecs DescribeImages to find one that exists.

Here are more examples include chef, jenkins image template etc.

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