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

• Download the correct packer from you platform from https://www.packer.io/downloads.html
• Install packer according to the guide from https://www.packer.io/docs/installation.html
• Install Go according to the guide from https://golang.org/doc/install
• Setup your access key and secret key in the environment variables according to platform, for example In Linux platform with default bash, open your .bashrc in your home directory and add following two lines

      export ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY="access key value"
      
      export ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY="secret key value"

• Open a terminator and clone Alicloud packer provider and build,install and test

  cd <$GOPATH>
  
  mkdir -p src/github.com/alibaba/
  
  cd <$GOPATH>/src/github.com/alibaba/
  
  git clone https://github.com/alibaba/packer-provider
  
  cd <$GOPTH>/src/github.com/alibaba/packer-provider
    
  make all
  
  sorce ~/.bashrc
  
  packer build example/alicloud.json
  

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.

How to contribute code

• If you are not sure or have any doubts, feel free to ask and/or submit an issue or PR. We appreciate all contributions and don't want to create artificial obstacles that get in the way.
• Contributions are welcome and will be merged via PRs.

Contributors

• zhuzhih2017

License

• This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.

Refrence

• Pakcer document: https://www.packer.io/intro/