Pipeline Tasks for Packer
Install HashiCorp Packer and run Packer commands to build machine images in your Azure Pipelines build and release pipelines.
Tasks
Finds in cache or downloads a specific version of Packer and prepends it to the PATH. Download from:
- HashiCorp official releases (
releases.hashicorp.com) — GPG-verified
- Private registry — a
terraform-registry-backend instance serving a packer binary mirror
- Custom mirror URL — any HTTPS server mirroring the HashiCorp releases directory structure
Pipeline Packer
Runs any Packer CLI command — init, validate, build, fmt, inspect, console, fix, hcl2_upgrade, plugins, version, and a custom escape hatch — with first-class service-connection authentication for every cloud Packer officially supports:
| Provider |
Authentication |
azurerm |
Azure Resource Manager service connection (Workload Identity Federation / Managed Identity / Service Principal) |
aws |
AWS service connection (static keys or Workload Identity Federation) |
gcp |
GCP service connection (service account key or Workload Identity Federation) |
oci |
OCI service connection (API key) |
vsphere |
vSphere/vCenter service connection (username + password) |
none |
No cloud credentials — for Docker, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, and Vagrant builders |
Example
steps:
- task: PipelinePackerInstaller@1
inputs:
packerVersion: latest
- task: PipelinePacker@1
displayName: Build Azure image
inputs:
command: build
provider: azurerm
environmentServiceNameAzureRM: my-azure-connection
templatePath: ./images/ubuntu
See the GitHub repository for full documentation.
