The packer builder docker image

[Bogdan Dobrelya]

Solar devs use packer to build images for solar master and slaves. Those envs are not consistent - some use fedora, some arch linux, some ubuntu. Some have older virtualbox installed or newer qemu/libvirt, and so on.

Besides that, some devs experience strange packer caching issues - when installed packages are missing in the destination box. This requires unified and repeatable build environment with a clean state. So the idea is to make a docker image for developers and CI build jobs to use.

The PoC builder image will reside here https://hub.docker.com/r/bogdando/solar-packer-builder/ .
It is based on https://hub.docker.com/_/fedora/ Fedora 23. It builds qemu and docker cases.
Jenkins job or a developer may just pull it and run build commands as needed.

[Bogdan Dobrelya (bogdando)]

High to due to *sad* packer UX

[Jedrzej Nowak (jnowak)]

/root/solar is on datached HEAD
packer is still "not that packer that we need"

Could you adjust your builder image ?

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/286517

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/286517
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/solar/commit/?id=4aa47c1348443f8ef6934a8130a51909bd696b2b
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 4aa47c1348443f8ef6934a8130a51909bd696b2b
Author: Bogdan Dobrelya <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 1 12:38:43 2016 +0100

    Describe how to create/use the builder container

    Closes-bug: #1551269

    Change-Id: I9b155bcbc6e96034f5f55ba2f8add89abdeabc5b
    Signed-off-by: Bogdan Dobrelya <email address hidden>