Packer Plugin Scaffolding

Packer Plugin Scaffolding

This repository is a template for a Packer multi-component plugin. It is intended as a starting point for creating Packer plugins, containing:

• A builder (builder/scaffolding)
• A provisioner (provisioner/scaffolding)
• A post-processor (post-processor/scaffolding)
• A data source (datasource/scaffolding)
• Docs (docs)
• A working example (example)

These folders contain boilerplate code that you will need to edit to create your own Packer multi-component plugin. A full guide to creating Packer plugins can be found at [Extending Packer](https://www.packer.io/docs/plugins/creation).

In this repository you will also find a pre-defined GitHub Action configuration for the release workflow (`.goreleaser.yml` and `.github/workflows/release.yml`). The release workflow configuration makes sure the GitHub release artifacts are created with the correct binaries and naming conventions.

Please see the [GitHub template repository documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template) for how to create a new repository from this template on GitHub.

Packer plugin projects

Here's a non exaustive list of Packer plugins that you can checkout:

• github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-docker
• github.com/exoscale/packer-plugin-exoscale
• github.com/sylviamoss/packer-plugin-comment
• github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hashicups

Looking at their code will give you good examples.

Build from source

1. Clone this GitHub repository locally.

2. Run this command from the root directory:

go build -ldflags="-X g