Install and execute packer as part of your build & release pipelines.
Release Notes
22-01-2020
PackerTool: version optional, download latest version when not specified
02-02-2019
Download 386 version on a ia32 architecture system
Default version for packer tool updated: 1.3.4 (should auto resolve that sometime)
18-01-2019
Output variable for DeploymentName (so you can cleanup resources when Packer fails to do so).
Default version for packer tool updated: 1.3.3
03-12-2018
Packer@V1 out of preview
Disable color for packer build by default with -color=false switch
Default version for packer tool updated: 1.3.2
23-10-2018
Support for AWS in V1-peview.
Default version for packer tool updated: 1.3.1
21-08-2018
Added additional output variables for OSDiskUriReadOnlySas, TemplateUri and TemplateUriReadOnlySas (when building VHD's)
Write variables as output so they're also available in YAML builds.
24-07-2018
Write the capture url of the VHD to the OSDiskUri output variable so it is accessible for downstream tasks.
Packer Tool
Downloads & installs specified version of packer and adds it to the tool cache.
Packer
Execute packer commands. By selecting your Azure or AWS service connection, the authorization and values are resolved from that and provided as variables to your packer template.
Note: The variable name is (currently) static and the template must therefor use this provided name. Luckily this matches the required input for the respective builders.
Example YAML
resources:
- repo: self
steps:
- task: riezebosch.Packer.PackerTool.PackerTool@0
- task: Packer@1
displayName: 'Packer build'
inputs:
connectedServiceType: azure #azure|aws|none
connectedServiceAzure: 'My Subscription'
#connectedServiceAWS: 'aws demo'
templatePath: linux.json
#force: true|false Force a build to continue if artifacts exist, deletes existing artifacts
variables: |+
resource_group=$(resource-group)
managed_image_name=small-linux
storage_account=$(storage-account)
#variables-file: JSON file containing user variables.
#options: Additional options, see Packer Commands (CLI) for more information.
