ProfitBricks

Type: profitbricks Artifact BuilderId: packer.profitbricks

The ProfitBricks Builder is able to create virtual machines for IONOS Compute Engine.

Configuration Reference

There are many configuration options available for the builder. They are segmented below into two categories: required and optional parameters. Within each category, the available configuration keys are alphabetized.

In addition to the options listed here, a communicator can be configured for this builder. In addition to the options defined there, a private key file can also be supplied to override the typical auto-generated key:

• ssh_private_key_file (string) - Path to a PEM encoded private key file to use to authenticate with SSH. The ~ can be used in path and will be expanded to the home directory of current user.

Required

• image (string) - ProfitBricks volume image. Only Linux public images are supported. To obtain full list of available images you can use ProfitBricks CLI.

• password (string) - ProfitBricks password. This can be specified via environment variable PROFITBRICKS_PASSWORD, if provided. The value defined in the config has precedence over environemnt variable.

• username (string) - ProfitBricks username. This can be specified via environment variable PROFITBRICKS_USERNAME, if provided. The value defined in the config has precedence over environemnt variable.

Optional

• cores (number) - Amount of CPU cores to use for this build. Defaults to "4".

• disk_size (string) - Amount of disk space for this image in GB. Defaults to "50"

• disk_type (string) - Type of disk to use for this image. Defaults to "HDD".

• location (string) - Defaults to "us/las".

• ram (number) - Amount of RAM to use for this image. Defaults to "2048".

• retries (string) - Number of retries Packer will make status requests while waiting for the build to complete. Default value 120 seconds.

• snapshot_name (string) - If snapshot name is not provided Packer will generate it

• snapshot_password (string) - Password for the snapshot.

• url (string) - Endpoint for the ProfitBricks REST API. Default URL "https://api.profitbricks.com/rest/v2"

Example

Here is a basic example:

HCL

source "profitbricks" "ubuntu" {
  image             = "Ubuntu-16.04"
  disk_size         = 5
  snapshot_name     = "double"
  snapshot_password = "test1234"
  ssh_username      = "root"
  timeout           = 100
}

build {
  sources = "profitbricks.ubuntu"
}

JSON

{
  "builders": [
    {
      "image": "Ubuntu-16.04",
      "type": "profitbricks",
      "disk_size": "5",
      "snapshot_name": "double",
      "snapshot_password": "test1234",
      "ssh_username": "root",
      "timeout": 100
    }
  ]
}