GitHub Action: Packer

This fork of packer-github-actions replaces the dockerfile to be based on Ubuntu and installs Packer, Ansible and other dependancies. The action now enables the use of the Ansible provisioner in your Packer builds.

GitHub Action for running Packer commands.

Table of Contents

• GitHub Action: Packer
  • Table of Contents
  • Usage
    • Inputs
      • command
      • arguments
      • target
  • Notes
  • Author Information
  • License

Usage

Add the Action to your GitHub Workflow like so:

---

name: Packer

on:
  push:

jobs:
  packer:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: packer

    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      # fix backwards incompatibilities in template
      - name: Fix Template
        uses: operatehappy/packer-github-actions@master
        with:
          command: fix

      # validate templates
      - name: Validate Template
        uses: operatehappy/packer-github-actions@master
        with:
          command: validate
          arguments: -syntax-only
          target: artifacts.pkr.json packer.json

      # build artifact
      - name: Build Artifact
        uses: operatehappy/packer-github-actions@master
        with:
          command: build
          arguments: "-color=false -on-error=abort"
          target: artifacts.pkr.json packer.json

      # additional steps to process artifacts

Inputs

Name	Description	Required	Default
command	command to execute	yes
arguments	arguments for command	no
target	file(s) to target	yes	artifacts.pkr.json

command

command supports the following subset of Packer CLI commands:

• build to generate a set of artifacts from a template
• fix to find and correct backwards incompatible stanzas in a template
• validate to validate the syntax and configuration of a template

Other CLI commands (console, inspect and version) are technically supported, but have limited utility in a GitHub Actions Workflow, due to their interactive nature.

arguments

arguments supports all options available for the respective command.

The arguments must be provided as a single string. Multiple arguments should be concatenated like so: "-color=false -on-error=abort"

target

target supports a string consisting of one or more file paths:

   # single file
   target: artifacts.pkr.json

   # multiple files, separated by whitespace
   target: artifacts.pkr.json packer.json

The Action will iterate over each file and run each command, separately.

Notes

• To enable debug logging, create a secret named ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG with the value true. See here for more information.

Author Information

This module is maintained by the contributors listed on GitHub.

Development of this module was sponsored by Operate Happy.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").

You may obtain a copy of the License at apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, without WARRANTIES or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.

See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.