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HashiCorp Packer in Production

You're reading from  HashiCorp Packer in Production

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246857
Pages 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Boero John Boero
Profile icon John Boero

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Packer’s Beginnings
2. Chapter 1: Packer Fundamentals 3. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Template 4. Chapter 3: Configuring Builders and Sources 5. Chapter 4: The Power of Provisioners 6. Chapter 5: Logging and Troubleshooting 7. Part 2: Managing Large Environments
8. Chapter 6: Working with Builders 9. Chapter 7: Building an Image Hierarchy 10. Chapter 8: Scaling Large Builds 11. Part 3: Advanced Customized Packer
12. Chapter 9: Managing the Image Lifecycle 13. Chapter 10: Using HCP Packer 14. Chapter 11: Automating Packer Builds 15. Chapter 12: Developing Packer Plugins 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sample plugin source

Always start with a current copy of the scaffold plugin repo. This has a few important files in the root directory, including main.go, GNUMakefile, and go.mod, which pins certain versions of the dependencies used by your Go module. It also declares a Go module, which you should rename to your module. Here, we use packer-plugin-nspawn for our module name. Have a look at the repository here: https://github.com/jboero/packer-plugin-nspawn.

The repo contains sample folders for each plugin type:

  • builder: We will use this to start a systemd-nspawn machine
  • datasource: We will use this to look up the machines and images available
  • post-processor: We won’t need one of these so we delete the directory
  • provisioner: We also won’t need one of these so we will delete it

The plugin registers itself in the very simple main.go file. Post-processors and provisioners may be added for custom actions but we won’t need anything. Packer...

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