The gridscale packer plugin can be used with HashiCorp Packer to create custom templates in gridscale. Docs: docs.

This provider plugin is maintained by the Packer team at gridscale.

• Packer ≥ v1.7.0
• Go ≥ 1.17 (to build the provider plugin)

Packer (≥ v1.7.0) supports a new packer init command allowing automatic installation of Packer plugins. Plugin installation.

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration . Then, run packer init.

packer { required_plugins { gridscale = { version = ">= 0.0.1" source = "github.com/gridscale/gridscale" } } }

Plugin installation

Build:

$ git clone git@github.com:gridscale/packer-plugin-gridscale.git $ cd packer-plugin-gridscale $ make build 

For dev:

$ make dev 

Requirements:

• Environment varialbe GRIDSCALE_UUID has to be set.
• Environment varialbe GRIDSCALE_TOKEN has to be set.

In packer-plugin-gridscale directory, run:

make acctest 

This will run the acceptance test for packer-plugin-gridscale.

• Update version in version/version.go
• Do make generate to regenerate docs and go file config.hcl2spec.go (if there are updates in config.go).
• Add entries to CHANGELOG.md