Packer Plugin for Podman

This repository contains a Packer Plugin for Podman. It directly takes the source code from github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-docker and it "remixes" it to make it work with Podman. I've simply taken the default scaffolder, run sed on it (scaffolder -> podman) and the used the code from the Docker plugin into this one and add a few features here and there. Therefore, the copyright of this project is the same of github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-docker, and most of the work has to be given credit to HashiCorp for the hard work done with Docker that I've shamelessly taken in order to make this plugin.

Packer plugin projects

Here's a non exaustive list of Packer plugins that you can checkout:

• github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-docker
• github.com/exoscale/packer-plugin-exoscale
• github.com/sylviamoss/packer-plugin-comment
• github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-hashicups

Looking at their code will give you good examples.

Running Acceptance Tests

Make sure to install the plugin with go build . and to have Packer installed locally. Then source the built binary to the plugin path with cp packer-plugin-podman ~/.packer.d/plugins/packer-plugin-podman Once everything needed is set up, run:

PACKER_ACC=1 go test -count 1 -v ./... -timeout=120m

This will run the acceptance tests for all plugins in this set.

Test Plugin Example Action

This project configures a manually triggered plugin test action. By default, the action will run Packer at the latest version to init, validate, and build the example configuration within the example folder. This is useful to quickly test a basic template of your plugin against Packer.

The example must contain the required_plugins block and require your plugin at the latest or any other released version. This will help test and validate plugin releases.

Requirements

• packer-plugin-sdk >= v0.1.0
• Go >= 1.16

Packer Compatibility

This podman template is compatible with Packer >= v1.7.0