The HCP error messages were sometimes a bit terse in terms of the
information it bubbles up to the user.
This made them useful for people who already knew what to look for, but
newcomers would almost certainly be lost because of the lack of
information in those.
To improve on this situation, we reword most of those error messages in
this commit.
When a template with some builds to run ends its GetBuilds with an
error, and no builds produced, we can exit immediately without printing
more errors.
When a `packer build' is run on a config that does not define anything
to be built, the process would run normally, and only state that no
artifacts were produced after builds were run successfully.
This is misleading as we reach the end of the command without having a
proper warning that nothing was even attempted to be built.
This commit adds a warning when that happens, and leaves immediately
after.
Before this commit, some HCP-related logic was embedded in the parser,
making all of it common to all commands.
This complexifies the logic as some parts rely on the template being in
a HCP-valid environment, and the datasources need to be evaluated in
order for some operations to be executed.
To simplify this and avoid those pitfalls, we move this logic to its own
set of functions that will be performed after the parsing is done, on
any valid HCL2 or JSON template.
Since the GetConfig methods are common to all the commands of Packer
that rely on a config to work, we move them from build.go to meta.go in
order to make the intent clearer.
* Add working registry pkg
* Add custom error for handling the loading of PAR environment variables
* Working Publish to Build, with proper error handling for bucket names
* Update hcp-sdk-go to use branch instead of mod replace directive
* Update Packer build status configuration
* Add support for HCP_PACKER_BUILD_FINGERPRINT env
* Add support for publishing one or more PARtifacts from a single build
* add git shas to this branch
* Add ability to set provider name if available
* Add working RegistryBuilder type
* Add RegistryPostProcessor as wrapper post-processor
* When in PAR mode a empty RegistryPostProcessor is added to the end of
the post-processor list to publish all final image data.
* Add support for updating a build from PAR that is not in a DONE state
* Fix a small issue with creation the initial builds for an empty
iteration.
* Add PAR URL to post-processor display
* Implement hcp_packer_registry block (#11168)
* Update vendored Amazon plugin to v1.0.1-dev
* Fix panic when running a Packer registry build in a clean directory
* Remove the publishing of post-processor metadata from the registry
post-processor.
* Remove metadata add from registry_builder
* Update registry builder to skip a build that was found to be DONE
Co-authored-by: Megan Marsh <megan@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Sylvia Moss <moss@hashicorp.com>
This adds the new `required_plugins` block to be nested under the packer block.
Example:
```hcl
packer {
required_plugins {
aws = {
version = ">= 2.7.0"
source = "azr/aws"
}
azure = ">= 2.7.0"
}
}
```
For example on darwin_amd64 Packer will install those under :
* "${PACKER_HOME_DIR}/plugin/github.com/azr/amazon/packer-plugin-amazon_2.7.0_x5.0_darwin_amd64"
* "${PACKER_HOME_DIR}/plugin/github.com/hashicorp/azure/packer-plugin-azure_2.7.0_x5.0_darwin_amd64_x5"
+ docs
+ tests
The initialization of packer core in JSON also validates that `null` variables were set, except in the case of `packer validate --syntax-only` , but after the refactor to allow to have all commands work with HCL2 and JSON this subtlety was lost.
This refactors the initialisation of the core in order to allow to have `packer validate --syntax-only` not error in case a variable is not set. Since these calls are refactored this works for HCL2 too.
fix#9478
* refactor so that json and hcl2 templates are both prepared in the same place in the build call, to make code easier to reason about. Remove overly verbose error output which isn't useful in vast majority of cases
* fix tests
* check err msg
* hcl2template.PackerConfig.GetBuilds: raise a diagnostic in case the packer core build perpare call errors
Co-authored-by: Adrien Delorme <adrien.delorme@icloud.com>
to allow just reading the config and to not start anything. This will allow to later on run `validate --syntax-only`.
Note that none of the builder/provisioner/post-processor config will be read but simply ignored. HCL2 still needs the body to be properly formatted and it should detect most syntax errors.
This follows #8232 which added the code to generate the code required to parse
HCL files for each packer component.
All old config files of packer will keep on working the same. Packer takes one
argument. When a directory is passed, all files in the folder with a name
ending with “.pkr.hcl” or “.pkr.json” will be parsed using the HCL2 format.
When a file ending with “.pkr.hcl” or “.pkr.json” is passed it will be parsed
using the HCL2 format. For every other case; the old packer style will be used.
## 1. the hcl2template pkg can create a packer.Build from a set of HCL (v2) files
I had to make the packer.coreBuild (which is our one and only packer.Build ) a public struct with public fields
## 2. Components interfaces get a new ConfigSpec Method to read a file from an HCL file.
This is a breaking change for packer plugins.
a packer component can be a: builder/provisioner/post-processor
each component interface now gets a `ConfigSpec() hcldec.ObjectSpec`
which allows packer to tell what is the layout of the hcl2 config meant
to configure that specific component.
This ObjectSpec is sent through the wire (RPC) and a cty.Value is now
sent through the already existing configuration entrypoints:
Provisioner.Prepare(raws ...interface{}) error
Builder.Prepare(raws ...interface{}) ([]string, error)
PostProcessor.Configure(raws ...interface{}) error
close#1768
Example hcl files:
```hcl
// file amazon-ebs-kms-key/run.pkr.hcl
build {
sources = [
"source.amazon-ebs.first",
]
provisioner "shell" {
inline = [
"sleep 5"
]
}
post-processor "shell-local" {
inline = [
"sleep 5"
]
}
}
// amazon-ebs-kms-key/source.pkr.hcl
source "amazon-ebs" "first" {
ami_name = "hcl2-test"
region = "us-east-1"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
kms_key_id = "c729958f-c6ba-44cd-ab39-35ab68ce0a6c"
encrypt_boot = true
source_ami_filter {
filters {
virtualization-type = "hvm"
name = "amzn-ami-hvm-????.??.?.????????-x86_64-gp2"
root-device-type = "ebs"
}
most_recent = true
owners = ["amazon"]
}
launch_block_device_mappings {
device_name = "/dev/xvda"
volume_size = 20
volume_type = "gp2"
delete_on_termination = "true"
}
launch_block_device_mappings {
device_name = "/dev/xvdf"
volume_size = 500
volume_type = "gp2"
delete_on_termination = true
encrypted = true
}
ami_regions = ["eu-central-1"]
run_tags {
Name = "packer-solr-something"
stack-name = "DevOps Tools"
}
communicator = "ssh"
ssh_pty = true
ssh_username = "ec2-user"
associate_public_ip_address = true
}
```
