Merge pull request #57 from ddelnano/ddelnano/add-dynamic-ubuntu-example

Update ubuntu example to be resilient to upstream minor releases

examples/ubuntu/ubuntu-2004.pkr.hcl

@@ -1,12 +1,43 @@
 packer {
   required_plugins {
    xenserver= {
-      version = ">= v0.3.2"
+      version = ">= v0.5.2"
       source = "github.com/ddelnano/xenserver"
     }
   }
 }
 
+# The ubuntu_version value determines what Ubuntu iso URL and sha256 hash we lookup. Updating
+# this will allow a new version to be pulled in.
+data "null" "ubuntu_version" {
+  input = "20.04"
+}
+
+locals {
+  timestamp = regex_replace(timestamp(), "[- TZ:]", "")
+  ubuntu_version = data.null.ubuntu_version.output
+
+  # Update this map to support future releases. At this time, the Ubuntu
+  # jammy template is not available yet.
+  ubuntu_template_name = {
+    20.04 = "Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04"
+  }
+}
+
+# TODO(ddelnano): Update this to use a local once https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/11011
+# is fixed.
+data "http" "ubuntu_sha_and_release" {
+  url = "https://releases.ubuntu.com/${data.null.ubuntu_version.output}/SHA256SUMS"
+}
+
+local "ubuntu_sha256" {
+  expression = regex("([A-Za-z0-9]+)[\\s\\*]+ubuntu-.*server", data.http.ubuntu_sha_and_release.body)
+}
+
+local "ubuntu_url_path" {
+  expression = regex("[A-Za-z0-9]+[\\s\\*]+ubuntu-${local.ubuntu_version}.(\\d+)-live-server-amd64.iso", data.http.ubuntu_sha_and_release.body)
+}
+
 variable "remote_host" {
   type        = string
   description = "The ip or fqdn of your XenServer. This will be pulled from the env var 'PKR_VAR_XAPI_HOST'"
@@ -42,15 +73,10 @@ variable "sr_name" {
   description = "The name of the SR to packer will use"
 }
 
-locals {
-  timestamp = regex_replace(timestamp(), "[- TZ:]", "") 
-}
-
-
 source "xenserver-iso" "ubuntu-2004" {
-  iso_checksum      = "5035be37a7e9abbdc09f0d257f3e33416c1a0fb322ba860d42d74aa75c3468d4"
+  iso_checksum      = local.ubuntu_sha256.0
   iso_checksum_type = "sha256"
-  iso_url           = "http://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/ubuntu-20.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso"
+  iso_url           = "https://releases.ubuntu.com/${local.ubuntu_version}/ubuntu-${local.ubuntu_version}.${local.ubuntu_url_path.0}-live-server-amd64.iso"
 
   sr_iso_name    = var.sr_iso_name
   sr_name        = var.sr_name
@@ -61,11 +87,11 @@ source "xenserver-iso" "ubuntu-2004" {
   remote_username = var.remote_username
 
   # Change this to match the ISO of ubuntu you are using in the iso_url variable
-  clone_template = "Ubuntu Focal Fossa 20.04"
-  vm_name        = "packer-ubuntu-2004-${local.timestamp}"
+  clone_template = local.ubuntu_template_name[data.null.ubuntu_version.output]
+  vm_name        = "packer-ubuntu-${data.null.ubuntu_version.output}-${local.timestamp}"
   vm_description = "Build started: ${local.timestamp}"
   vm_memory      = 4096
-  disk_size      = 20000
+  disk_size      = 30720
 
   floppy_files = [
     "examples/http/ubuntu-2004/meta-data",