These is unofficial Packer GitHub Actions which allows you to run packer validation and inspection on pull requests to review Packer template changes and potentially build on pull merge. Check out the official Packer documentation for further reference.
- Documentations
- Getting started & usage
- Actions details
- Action for
- Validate Action
- Inspect Action
- Build Action
- Directory set for all actions
- Improvements
- Multiple template validation
- Documentation with more screen shots & configuration instructions
- Blog post
To check this in action, please check Packer actions demo project with a collection of sample packer template files.
Variables
PACKER_ACTION_WORKING_DIR
: Working directoryTEMPLATE_FILE_NAME
: Packer template fileACTION_COMMENT
: Enable/Disable PR comment from validate result
workflow "packer build template-y" {
resolves = "packer-build-template-y"
on = "release"
}
action "packer-build-template-y" {
uses = "dawitnida/packer-github-actions/build@master"
needs = "packer-inspect-template-y"
secrets = [
"GITHUB_TOKEN",
]
env = {
TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "packer-template-y.json"
}
}
action "filter-open-synced-pr" {
uses = "actions/bin/filter@master"
args = "action 'opened|synchronize'"
}
workflow "packer inspect & validate template-y" {
resolves = "packer-inspect-template-y"
on = "pull_request"
}
action "packer-validate-template-y" {
uses = "dawitnida/packer-github-actions/validate@master"
needs = "filter-open-synced-pr"
secrets = [
"GITHUB_TOKEN",
]
env = {
TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "packer-template-y.json"
}
}
action "packer-inspect-template-y" {
uses = "dawitnida/packer-github-actions/inspect@master"
needs = "packer-validate-template-y"
secrets = [
"GITHUB_TOKEN",
]
env = {
TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "packer-template-y.json"
}
}