Hello, Packer community! Packer v1.6.0 is out, and with it come a few exciting updates:
- HCL support continues to get closer to parity with JSON configs -- Packer now - supports named builds, only/except flags, and the "packer validate" and "packer console" commands. - We've implemented SSM support for AWS and IAP support for Google Compute. - Packer can retrieve files stored on a smb share. - We've fixed a long-standing VMware builder bug where Packer can no longer connect if a guest's dhcpd changes the IP address of the instance during a build. - The Artifice post-processor now works with a much wider array of post-processors, allowing easier chaining of Packer builds. But there's a whole lot more than that! Please take a look at the changelog <https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#160-june-09-2020> for more details! There are some backwards incompatabilities that you will need to be aware of: - For all iso-based builders, the `iso_checksum_type` and `iso_checksum_url` fields have been removed in favor of simply setting the `iso_checksum` field. - For the vsphere-iso builder, the fields `network`, `network_card`, `disk_size`, `disk_thin_provisioned`, and `disk_eagerly_scrub` have been deprecated in favor of a storage configuration block: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware/vsphere-iso/#storage-configuration For both of these backwards-incompatabilities, you can use the packer fix <https://www.packer.io/docs/commands/fix/> command to update a config file to use the new format. Thanks, Megan and the Packer Team -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/68da5cc3-dc6c-4d3e-9e4e-9ba9e17bafcdo%40googlegroups.com.
