ISO Builder?

[Joe Seeley]

Are there any plans to add a builder that will create an installable ISO?  There are many hosting providers where you can upload your own ISO for production deployments (see https://www.vultr.com/features/uploadiso/) so it seems like this would be a good fit for Packer?

[Rickard von Essen]

It doesn't actually not a good fit. Packer starts a VM and provision
the config on it and then saves a snapshot of that VM. A installable
ISO contains data and program that installs the data onto a new
machine. That is a very different process.

And creating a auto-installing ISO from a standard CentOS image is just:
1) unpack the ISO to writable directory
2) add a kickstart file
3) edit the default boot loader command to load that kickstart file
4) pack everything up in a new ISO

(This process can be done in a Packer template using the artifice
post-processor if you want to automate this procedure and run it in a
isolated environment).

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