The HCL2 docs on built-in functions contains a link to a non-existent
section of the expressions page, so we update it to link to the general
page, and to the string interpolation section, since it is a common use
case.
The active plugins that resided in a HashiCorp repository have been migrated to
the integrations framework and no longer need to be listed within the plugins-manifest file.
Since this feature is no longer something we plan to activate later, as
it contradicts with our efforts to remove bundled plugins, and
encouraging users to move to either manually installing plugins, or
managing them through `packer init', we clean-up the code for this
feature.
Since we added support for PLSPs recently, and it will be released as part of 1.9.3, we add some documentation regarding the environment variables we added, and a note regarding their relation to PLSP support.
The `packer init' command's wording was not clear, so it was changed in
a preceding commit, and this commit aims to add more details on how the
command is meant to be used, along with a simple example.
When the config file header was reworked, an erroneous link was
included and placed so close to the header that it was rendered verbatim
in the final documentation page.
By adding an extra empty line in between the anchor link and the header,
this renders correctly.
Packer checks a number of directories for plugins upon initialization,
with the introduction of multi-component plugins and underlying changes
to the Packer SDK the ordering changed slightly. These changes update
the related documentation to reflect the new ordering, and adds a plugin
loading ordering section to the docs to help users discover how plugin
loading works.
Include in this change are updates to the PACKER_CONFIG_DIR environment
variables to reflect the XDG base directory specification used as the
default Packer configuration directory layout.
* Update website/content/docs/configure.mdx
* Update external plugin documentation source
The Parallels plugin for Packer is now maintained by the Parallels team, under
their respective GitHub org. This changes updates the source address for
the external plugin that should be used for pulling new plugin
documentation.
* Removed packer-plugin-parallels for list of vendored plugins
* docs: add a paragraph on fingerprint generation
Since version 1.9.0+ changed the way Packer generates fingerprints for
HCP Packer, we add a small paragraph to explain how it used to be
generated before, and how it changed in this version.
* Apply suggestions from code review
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Co-authored-by: Wilken Rivera <[email protected]>
With HCP supporting multi-projects now, Packer needs to take it into
account when picking a project from an organisation.
This commit adds two cases:
1. multiple projects are defined, none is supplied through
HCP_PROJECT_ID: in this case we will default to the oldest project
defined for the organisation.
2. we supply HCP_PROJECT_ID: in this case, we pick the project with the
corresponding ID, and use it for publishing metadata.
This step removes community plugins from the Packer binary release. These plugins are being maintained and released independently of Packer and have become out of date. To ensure users are using the latest version of the plugins they are being removed in favor of the external plugin installation processes.
* Update external plugin documentation source
The UCloud plugin for Packer is now maintained by the UCloud team, under
their respective GitHub org. This changes updates the source address for
the external plugin that should be used for pulling new plugin
documentation.
* Remove packer-plugin-ucloud from vendored plugins.
* Update external plugin documentation source
The Linode plugin for Packer is now maintained by the Linode team, under
their respective GitHub org. This changes updates the source address for
the external plugin that should be used for pulling new plugin
documentation.
* Removed packer-plugin-linode for list of vendored plugins
The Linode plugin for Packer is now maintained by the Linode team, under
their respective GitHub org. This changes removes Linode from the vendored plugins
lists.
Fingerprints are how we link a packer build to an iteration on HCP.
These are computed automatically from the Git SHA in the current state,
and are unique to the bucket/iteration.
The main problem with this approach is that while sound in theory, it
quickly falls apart when users want to run the same build configuration
twice, but expect a new image to be created.
With the current model, this fails, as the iteration with the current
SHA already exists.
While this is solvable through environment variables, or by committing a
change to the repository, we think this is not clear enough, and causes
an extra step to what should otherwise be a simple process.
Therefore, to lower the barrier of entry into HCP, we change this
behaviour with this commit.
Now, fingerprints are randomly generated ULIDs instead of a git SHA, and
a new one is always generated, unless one is already specified in the
environment.
This makes continuation of an existing iteration a conscious choice
rather than something automatic, and virtually eliminates conflicts such
as the ones described above.
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