Has anyone made a Packer Template UI?

[Elhanan Maayan]

hi... 

i've tried packer several times, it's very very nice, but i was wondering if there's any ui to edit the templates. 

the packer i was trying was packer 0.7.8, i'm trying to ubuntu 16 LTS templates that can install a MINIMAL virtual machine install option (ubuntu has such an option in it's installer) 

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

There is no such thing as packer UI I am afraid.

If you use the server iso for ubuntu that will install a minimal OS where any package should be added on top of the base install.

By the way, 0.7.8 is very old, I would suggest update packer as time permits.

Thanks

Alvaro.

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[Elhanan Maayan]

i said i've used it in the past for experiments, i'm using 1.2.3 now, what i'm talking about is this feature..which you select in the beginning (before packages) https://askubuntu.com/questions/57336/minimal-system-or-minimal-virtual-machine-on-install

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

Ubuntu uses something called preseed to specify base packages:

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/armhf/apbs02.html

If you can get the preseed equivalent of that will work.

To give you an example.

imagine on the installer after normal installation Web server is not there, you can either tell the installer to add that package or install it later.

This is an example preseed file:

https://github.com/cbednarski/packer-ubuntu/blob/master/http/preseed.cfg

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