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Compress Post-Processor

Type: compress

The compress post-processor takes an artifact with files (such as from VMware or VirtualBox) and gzip compresses the artifact into a single archive.

Configuration

The configuration for this post-processor is extremely simple.

• output (string) - The path to save the compressed archive.

Example

An example is shown below, showing only the post-processor configuration:

{
  "type": "compress",
  "path": "foo.tar.gz"
}