Packer Plugin for HuaweiCloud ECS

This is a HashiCorp Packer plugin for creating Huawei Cloud ECS image.

Installation

Using pre-built releases

Using the packer init command

Starting from version 1.7, Packer supports a new packer init command allowing automatic installation of Packer plugins. Read the Packer documentation for more information.

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

packer {
  required_plugins {
    huaweicloud = {
      version = ">= 0.4.0"
      source  = "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud"
    }
  }
}

Manual installation

You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here. Once you have downloaded the latest archive corresponding to your target OS, uncompress it to retrieve the plugin binary file corresponding to your platform. To install the plugin, please follow the Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

Install from source

If you prefer to build the plugin from source, clone the GitHub repository to $GOPATH/src/github.com/huaweicloud/packer-plugin-huaweicloud.

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/huaweicloud; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/huaweicloud
git clone git@github.com:huaweicloud/packer-plugin-huaweicloud.git

Then enter the plugin directory and run make build command to build the plugin.

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/huaweicloud/packer-plugin-huaweicloud
make build

Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-huaweicloud plugin binary file can be found in the directory. To install the compiled plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

Configuration

For more information on how to configure the plugin, please read the documentation located in the docs/ directory or wiki.

Logging and Debugging

Debugging Packer in Linux

$ export HW_DEBUG=1
$ export PACKER_LOG=1
$ export PACKER_LOG_PATH="./packer.log"

Debugging Packer in Powershell/Windows

$env:HW_DEBUG=1
$env:PACKER_LOG=1
$env:PACKER_LOG_PATH="./packer.log"

Contributing

• If you think you’ve found a bug in the code or you have a question regarding the usage of this software, please reach out to us by opening an issue in this GitHub repository.
• Contributions to this project are welcome: if you want to add a feature or a fix a bug, please do so by opening a Pull Request in this GitHub repository. In case of feature contribution, we kindly ask you to open an issue to discuss it beforehand.