LXC

The LXC plugin allows building containers for lxc. The plugin contains a single builder lxc, which starts an LXC container, runs provisioners within this container, then exports the container as a tar.gz of the root file system.

Installation

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration, then run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    lxc = {
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/lxc"
      version = "~> 1"
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can use packer plugins install to manage installation of this plugin.

$ packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/lxc

Components

Builders

• lxc - The LXC builder builds containers for LXC by starting a container, provisioning it, and exporting it as a tar.gz archive of the root file system.