packer-lxd

Customise and build LXD images using Packer + Ansible

Pre-requisites

• LXD
• Ansible
• Packer (Installation script provided in repo if needed)

Tested on

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Mint Una 20.3

Running the code

To build a new image customised via the Ansible playbook

git clone https://github.com/AdamGoldsmith/packer-lxd.git
cd packer-lxd
./install_packer.sh
cd packer
packer build lxd-ansible-local.json.pkr.hcl

References

• Referenced material at Blagovest Petrov's great blog site
• Honour Ansible output colouring

Notes

• localhost commands will run as root by default