A packer template to build an proxmox VM template containing everything needed to run jambonz on a single VM instance. The base linux distro is Debian 11 (bullseye).

Once the VM template has been created using this template, the associated terraform template should be used to deploy the final jambonz-mini server.

Prerequisites

In order to run this packer script you must first create a VM template on your Packer node that has a basic Debian 11 install meeting the following requirements:

an 'admin' user has been created that has sudo privileges
the 'admin' user should have your public ssh key installed to allow passwordless access
the VM template should have 4 CPU cores

Installing

Assuming that you have created a variables.json file to hold your variable values, you would simply do this:

$  packer build -color=false -var-file=variables.json template.json

variables

There are many variables that can be specified either on the packer build command line, or in a separate variables.json file.

proxmox_url: the url of the proxmox GUI api server (e.g.https://:8006/api2/json)
proxmox_user: user to log into proxmox GUI (e.g. root@pam)
proxmox_password: password for proxmox GUI user
proxmox_node: name of the promox node
proxmox_source_vm_private_key_file: path to private ssh key on local machine, used to ssh to source vm without a password
proxmox_clone_vm: name of the VM template to clone and build from
proxmox_vm_id: vm id to assign to the VM build server
proxmox_bridge: name of the proxmox bridge to attach the VM build server to
proxmox_ip: IP address to assign to the VM build server
proxmox_gateway: gateway for the VM build server