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.

TODOs

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

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

workflow "packer validate docker-image-template" {
  resolves = "packer-validate-docker-image-template"
  on = "pull_request"
}

action "filter-open-synced-pr" {
  uses = "actions/bin/filter@master"
  args = "action 'opened|synchronize'"
}

# For single template (eg. dockers dir contains *.json template)
action "packer-validate-docker-image-template" {
  uses = "dawitnida/packer-github-actions/validate@master"
  needs = "filter-open-synced-pr"
  secrets = [
    "GITHUB_TOKEN",
  ]
  env = {
    TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "*.json"
    PACKER_ACTION_WORKING_DIR = "dockers"
  }
}

workflow "packer validate template-x with var-file" {
  resolves = "packer-validate-template-x"
  on = "pull_request"
}

# For specific template file (eg. packer-template-x.json) with var-file (global-vars.json) arg
action "packer-validate-template-x" {
  uses = "dawitnida/packer-github-actions/validate@master"
  needs = "filter-open-synced-pr"
  secrets = [
    "GITHUB_TOKEN",
  ]
  args = [
    "-var-file=global-vars.json",
  ]
  env = {
    TEMPLATE_FILE_NAME = "packer-template-x.json"
  }
}

workflow "packer validate template-y without arg" {
  resolves = "packer-validate-template-y"
  on = "pull_request"
}

# For specific template file (eg. packer-template-y.json) without any args
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"
  }
}

Figure 1. Packer validate complete check list diagram

Author

Dawit Nida