Show HN: Bare metal OS images with Packer, VirtualBox and qemu-img

Posted by viralpoetry on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:07AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/viralpoetry/packer-bare-metal

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Re:Show HN: Bare metal OS images with Packer, VirtualBox and... by opsroller on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:27AM (#16351477)

How is this better than just using cloud-init and maas.

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Re:Show HN: Bare metal OS images with Packer, VirtualBox and... by viralpoetry on Sunday February 11, 2018 @11:44AM (#16353372)

Actually, the use case is not cloud image at all. One of the first problems was how to overcome having preinstalled cloud-init, polipo and other packages shipped with the OS cloud images.

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