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description: The ProfitBricks builder is able to create images for ProfitBricks cloud.
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page_title: ProfitBricks - Builders
sidebar_title: 'ProfitBricks'
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# ProfitBricks Builder

Type: `profitbricks`

The ProfitBricks Builder is able to create virtual machines for
[ProfitBricks](https://www.profitbricks.com).

## Configuration Reference

There are many configuration options available for the builder. They are
segmented below into two categories: required and optional parameters. Within
each category, the available configuration keys are alphabetized.

In addition to the options listed here, a
[communicator](/docs/templates/communicator) can be configured for this
builder.

### Required

- `image` (string) - ProfitBricks volume image. Only Linux public images are
  supported. To obtain full list of available images you can use
  [ProfitBricks CLI](https://github.com/profitbricks/profitbricks-cli#image).

- `password` (string) - ProfitBricks password. This can be specified via
  environment variable \`PROFITBRICKS_PASSWORD', if provided. The value
  defined in the config has precedence over environemnt variable.

- `username` (string) - ProfitBricks username. This can be specified via
  environment variable \`PROFITBRICKS_USERNAME', if provided. The value
  defined in the config has precedence over environemnt variable.

### Optional

- `cores` (number) - Amount of CPU cores to use for this build. Defaults to
  "4".

- `disk_size` (string) - Amount of disk space for this image in GB. Defaults
  to "50"

- `disk_type` (string) - Type of disk to use for this image. Defaults to
  "HDD".

- `location` (string) - Defaults to "us/las".

- `ram` (number) - Amount of RAM to use for this image. Defaults to "2048".

- `retries` (string) - Number of retries Packer will make status requests
  while waiting for the build to complete. Default value 120 seconds.

- `snapshot_name` (string) - If snapshot name is not provided Packer will
  generate it

- `snapshot_password` (string) - Password for the snapshot.

- `url` (string) - Endpoint for the ProfitBricks REST API. Default URL
  "<https://api.profitbricks.com/rest/v2>"

## Example

Here is a basic example:

```json
{
  "builders": [
    {
      "image": "Ubuntu-16.04",
      "type": "profitbricks",
      "disk_size": "5",
      "snapshot_name": "double",
      "snapshot_password": "test1234",
      "ssh_username": "root",
      "timeout": 100
    }
  ]
}
```