Packer Github Actions

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.

DONE

• Documentations
  • Getting started & usage
  • Actions details
• Action for
  • Validate Action
  • Inspect Action
  • Build Action
  • Directory set for all actions

TODOs

• Improvements
  • Multiple template validation
  • Documentation with more screen shots & configuration instructions
  • Blog post

Getting started and usage

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 directory
• TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME : Packer template file
• ACTION_COMMENT : Enable/Disable PR comment from validate result

name: Validate packer template file in a directory

on:
  pull_request:
jobs:
  packer_validate:
    runs-on: hashicorp/packer:1.6.4
    steps:
      - name: Packer validate template-y without argument
        uses: dawitnida/packer-github-actions/validate@master
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME: ${{ env.TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME }}

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"
  }
}

Figure 1. Packer validate complete check list diagram

Author

Dawit Nida