Github action for packer

[caulagi]

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Description

Is there any plan to provide a github action similar to terraform like https://github.com/hashicorp/setup-terraform?

Use Case(s)

I would like to run packer validate and packer fmt from CI pipeline

Potential configuration

steps:
- uses: hashicorp/setup-packer@v1
  with:
    packer_version: 1.6.6

Potential References

https://github.com/hashicorp/setup-terraform

[nywilken]

Hi there @caulagi have you seen the work done at https://github.com/marketplace/actions/packer-github-actions?

It might be exactly what you are looking for. Let us know.

[caulagi]

@nywilken I see that this issue was labelled as docs. Is this the 'official' recommendation for running packer with github actions? I have a few issues currently that I am going to raise issues for with operatehappy/packer-github-actions repository -

• Seems to support old packer (1.5.5)
• No option to specify the version. It would be nice to be able to do -

  steps:
  - uses: <provider>/setup-packer@v1
     with:
       packer_version: 1.6.6
  

• Handling of target is a bit weird with a default of artifacts.pkr.json

[nywilken]

Hi there @caulagi thanks for the follow up here. I added the docs label to this issue because I think it would be great to have a link to this action or maybe a guide on https://packer.io.

We don't have an 'official' recommendation for running packer with github actions, but this can be the start of it. As you mentioned, I suggest you open up an issue on operatehappy/packer-github-actions.

I know that the maintainers are planning to refactor things a bit so your feedback would be helpful.

[caulagi]

I would say 2 things that I would find very useful are -

• support for 1.6.6 at least (since that provides packer fmt -check.
• Using . as the default target - issue