Role Name

Installing Packer on macOS

Requirements

None

Role Variables

packer_install_version: "1.2.2"

This is the version of Packer that will be installed.

packer_download_destination: "/tmp/packer_{{ packer_install_version }}.zip"

This is the path where Packer will be downloaded.

packer_unarchive_destination: "/tmp/packer/"

This is the path where the downloaded file will be extracted.

packer_execution_path: "/usr/local/bin/packer"

This is the path where the extracted file will be moved to make it executable.

packer_releases_url: "https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/{{ packer_install_version }}/packer_{{ packer_install_version }}_darwin_amd64.zip"

This is the URL to download Packer.

packer_plugin_download_path: "/tmp"

This is the folder where plugins will be downloaded.

packer_plugin_installation_path: "~/.packer.d/plugins"

This is the folder where the plugins will be installed.

packer_plugins:
  - name: "Name-of-the-plugin-file-after-installation"
    url:  "download-url-of-the-plugin"
    filename: "filename-of-the-downloaded-file/archive"

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Here is an example of how to use this role:

    - hosts: 127.0.0.1
      connection: local
      roles:
         - { role: solutionDrive.packer }

License

MIT/BSD

Author Information

This role was created by solutionDrive