packer-plugin-web-init

Packer Plugin web-init

This repository is a basic packer plugin that was made for the purpose of learning how to make a packer-plugin.
It was generated from hashicorp/packer-plugin-scaffolding
All this plugin does is create a basic index.html template. Only works on Mac OS.

• A builder (builder/web)
• A working example (example)

A full guide to creating Packer plugins can be found at Extending Packer.

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 for how to create a new repository from this template on GitHub.

Building and Installing

Once the repo is cloned you can run this command to build and install

make dev

Running

If everything installed correctly, you can this command to test the plugin out

packer build examples/builder.pkr.hcl

This should result in a new directory called a web with index.html in the home directory

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.

Requirements

• packer-plugin-sdk >= v0.1.0
• Go >= 1.16

Packer Compatibility

This web-init plugin is compatible with Packer >= v1.7.0