Packer build

packer build -var-file variables.json ubuntu18.json

packer build
Usage: packer build [options] TEMPLATE

  Will execute multiple builds in parallel as defined in the template.
  The various artifacts created by the template will be outputted.

Options:

  -color=false                  Disable color output. (Default: color)
  -debug                        Debug mode enabled for builds.
  -except=foo,bar,baz           Build all builds other than these.
  -only=foo,bar,baz             Build only the specified builds.
  -force                        Force a build to continue if artifacts exist, deletes existing artifacts.
  -machine-readable             Produce machine-readable output.
  -on-error=[cleanup|abort|ask] If the build fails do: clean up (default), abort, or ask.
  -parallel=false               Disable parallelization. (Default: parallel)
  -timestamp-ui                 Enable prefixing of each ui output with an RFC3339 timestamp.
  -var 'key=value'              Variable for templates, can be used multiple times.
  -var-file=path                JSON file containing user variables.

See also

• Packer, packer --help, packer version, packer build
• Virtual machine: Packer, qcow2, Vagrant, KVM, VMware, KubeVirt, UTM, Lima, multipass