* docs: add plugin loading spec documentation
The logic for discovering and loading plugins is not well documented on
the current documentation.
This causes issues for users that have to troubleshoot why a particular
plugin cannot be found or installed, so this commit adds a specification
document, detailing what are Packer's expectations when it comes to
discovering plugins.
* Apply suggestions from code review
* Update plugin loading specification navbar
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Co-authored-by: Wilken Rivera <[email protected]>
Compared to Terraform, Packer was lacking a capability to encode/decode
strings to/from base64-encoded text encoded with another encoding.
This could be problematic in some cases, mainly when working with
Windows, as most of the OS uses UTF-16LE as its standard encoding for
many operations.
Therefore, we take a page from Terraform here, and add those functions
to what Packer supports in an HCL2 context.
This change removes all external plugin docs using the old remote docs framework
from the Packer core documentation in favor of the Packer integration framework.
Remove plugins will be enabled on the integration portal and contacted to merge their PRs to finalize the integration migration.
Since the UpCloud plugin has moved to the integrations model, we don't
want to continue looking for a docs.zip in their repo, as it doesn't
exist anymore with this migration.
This change removes the following plugins from the old docs framework, as
they have been fully migrated to the integrations framework.
* ethanmdavidson/packer-plugin-git
* linode/packer-plugin-linode
* parallels/packer-plugin-parallels
* ivoronin/packer-plugin-sshkey
* cirruslabs/packer-plugin-tart
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.
* 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
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 These plugins are being maintained and released independently of Packer and have become out of date.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.
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Lucas BajoletandWilken Rivera
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