Packer can only install plugins from github.com, with
releases.hashicorp.com consulted first for HashiCorp-published plugins.
This has been a long-standing gap for air-gapped and policy-restricted
environments (#11164): the source address parser already accepts any
hostname, but both existing getters reject non-github.com sources at
install time.
Add a remote plugin getter that installs plugins from the host named in
a required_plugins source address. The host serves the directory
structure of releases.hashicorp.com under the source's path: an
index.json listing versions, and per version a SHA256SUMS file, the
zips it lists, and - when the zip names carry no plugin protocol
version - the version's manifest.json. A plugin published on
releases.hashicorp.com is therefore mirrored as a verbatim copy of its
tree, with every checksum file and signature upstream-authored. A
plugin published as GitHub release assets is mirrored by copying each
release's assets into a version directory, renaming their SHA256SUMS
file to the unprefixed convention with content unchanged, and writing
an index.json listing the versions. Both kinds of content can be
served side by side by one host.
Getter selection happens per source address: github.com sources keep
the release and github getters unchanged, while any other host is
served by the remote getter over HTTPS. Sources with three or more
components are supported, up to the existing 16-component limit, so
nested artifact-repository paths and hosts that embed the upstream
origin in their path all resolve.
Version discovery, constraint solving, checksum verification, and the
binary naming rules match the existing getters. The installed filename
is rebuilt from validated checksum-file fields and never taken from the
server's response, checksum entries matching neither known naming shape
are rejected rather than guessed at, and nothing the remote metadata
supplies is used to fetch from another origin or path. index.json
parsing is covered by fixtures captured from the live releases API, so
a format change there fails tests rather than user installs.
Closes#11164
HCL2 builds do not send the packer_user_variables config key to the
builder, provisioner and post-processor plugins. Legacy JSON builds
send this key (through CoreBuild.packerConfig()). Without the key, the
plugin SDK keeps interpolate.Context.UserVariables nil. Then the
template function {{ user "name" }} fails with 'error calling user:
test'. This failure occurs in each string that a plugin interpolates at
run time, for example the contents of the vagrant post-processor's
vagrantfile_template.
Add the function PackerConfig.userVariableValues(). This function
converts the input variable values to strings, equivalent to the legacy
user variables. The core sends the map at each plugin handoff point:
builder, provisioner, post-processor, and enforced provisioner.
The map does not contain the sensitive variables. A sensitive value
goes to a plugin only if the template refers to it explicitly. The map
does not contain values that are not primitive (lists, maps, objects).
Legacy user variables were always strings.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* feat(provenance): add SLSA provenance and attestation signing libraries
Add internal/provenance for deriving in-toto subjects from Packer
artifacts, building SLSA Provenance v1 predicates, wrapping in-toto
statements, and best-effort git/CI source detection.
Add internal/attestation for DSSE envelope handling and a pluggable
Signer/Verifier backend supporting key (local PEM), kms (aws/gcp/
azure/hashivault), and keyless (Sigstore Fulcio) modes, plus Sigstore
bundle handling and DSSE/policy verification.
Add the supporting module dependencies in go.mod/go.sum.
* feat(provenance): add provenance post-processor
Add the opt-in "provenance" post-processor that runs after a build,
derives subjects from the artifact, emits DSSE-wrapped SLSA provenance
(and optional SBOM) attestations, signs them via the configured
signing backend, and writes sidecar files (including *.sigstore.json
bundles in keyless mode). Register it in the core post-processor set.
The provenance enable flag is a tri-state so an unset value stays
enabled through HCL2 decoding instead of being silently disabled.
* feat(provenance): add verify-attestation command
Add "packer verify-attestation" to verify signed DSSE attestations
against key, KMS, and keyless policy inputs, including optional
Sigstore bundle checks for Rekor and timestamp evidence. Register the
command in the CLI.
* docs(provenance): add reference CI workflows and changelog
Add reference GitHub Actions workflows under examples/ci for SLSA L2
keyless signing and L3-compatible delegated signing
* fix: lint and tests
* Added docs for Provenance PostProcessor
Prevents unnecessary update operations by checking if the
bucket's description and labels already match the requested
values before issuing an update.
Improves efficiency and avoids redundant API calls.
Sanya
dependabot[bot]andSanya
Jeremy Schoemaker
elomito
Benjamin Holmes
Erik BergandClaude Fable 5
Tanmay Jain
eshan-tripathi
Hari
mukulmohan177
Taru Garg
sanyaraj2424
