Packer is a useful application for the users who need to create virtual machine images that can be used on multiple platforms. This package includes multiple command line tools that enable you to create identical images with minimum effort.
The tools support VMware, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean platforms out of the box and enable you to extend their usage by using plugins.
What's New in This Release:
BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES:
· "iso_md5" in the virtualbox and vmware builders is replaced with "iso_checksum" and "iso_checksum_type" (with the latter set to "md5"). See the announce below on packer fix to automatically fix your templates.
FEATURES:
· NEW COMMAND: packer fix will attempt to fix templates from older versions of Packer that are now broken due to backwards incompatibilities. This command will fix the backwards incompatibilities introduced in this version.
· Amazon EBS builder can now optionally use a pre-made security group instead of randomly generating one.
· DigitalOcean API key and client IDs can now be passed in as environmental variables. See the documentatin for more details.
· VirtualBox and VMware can now have floppy_files specified to attach floppy disks when booting. This allows for unattended Windows installs.
· packer build has a new -force flag that forces the removal of existing artifacts if they exist. [GH-173]
· You can now log to a file (instead of just stderr) by...