A tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Packer is a tool for building identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer supports various platforms through external plugin integrations, the full list of which can be found at https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations.
The images that Packer creates can easily be turned into Vagrant boxes.
plugin/getter: add support for installing plugins from non-GitHub HTTPS sources,
including mirrors and artifact repositories that expose the HashiCorp release
directory format.
GH-13691
IMPROVEMENTS:
communicator/winrm: add configurable connection timeout and retry interval settings.
GH-13701
build: update Go to 1.26.8.
GH-13701
BUG FIXES:
core/hcl2: pass user variable values to builders, provisioners, and post-processors
as packer_user_variables, restoring legacy {{ user "name" }} interpolation in
plugin-managed templates.
GH-13686
post-processor/shell-local: execute inline scripts through the shell to avoid
intermittent ETXTBSY errors.
GH-13701
build: bump github.com/shoenig/go-m1cpu to v0.2.2 to prevent segmentation
faults on Apple M5 hardware.
GH-13696
SECURITY:
deps: bump google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.2 in Packer and the plugin
tester to reject requests missing both the :authority and Host headers.
GH-13704
GH-13707
DEPENDENCIES:
deps: bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk to v0.6.11.
GH-13701
deps: bump github.com/hashicorp/go-getter/v2 to v2.2.4.
GH-13701
deps: bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go to v0.175.0,
github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 to v5.19.2, and
github.com/klauspost/compress to v1.18.7.
GH-13689
deps: bump golang.org/x/crypto to v0.56.0, golang.org/x/net to
v0.58.0, and google.golang.org/grpc to v1.83.2.
GH-13701
GH-13707
deps: bump go.opentelemetry.io/otel, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric,
and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace to v1.45.0, and
github.com/go-logr/logr to v1.4.4.
GH-13710
deps: update additional Go module dependencies in Packer and the plugin tester.
GH-13689
GH-13701
INTERNAL:
docs: update the README contribution link to use the main branch.
GH-13700
