Role Name

Install packer on mac os

Requirements

none

Role Variables

packer_install_version: "1.2.2"

Version which should be installed

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

Path which will be used to download Packer

packer_unarchive_destination: "/tmp/packer/"

Path which will be used to extract downloaded archive

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

Path which will be used to move the extracted file and make it executable

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

Url to download packer

packer_plugin_download_path: "/tmp"

folder to download the configured plugins

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

folder where plugins have to 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

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

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

License

MIT/BSD

Author Information

This role was created by solutionDrive