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Downloads:

463,636

Downloads of v 1.12.0:

3,854

Last Update:

05 Feb 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Jack Pearkes
  • Mark Peek
  • Ross Smith II
  • Rickard von Essen

Tags:

packer vagrant virtual machine vm virtualbox vmware puppet chef hashicorp

Packer

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1.12.0 | Updated: 05 Feb 2025

Downloads:

463,636

Downloads of v 1.12.0:

3,854

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Jack Pearkes
  • Mark Peek
  • Ross Smith II
  • Rickard von Essen

Packer 1.12.0

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Mitchell Hashimoto, Jack Pearkes, Mark Peek, Ross Smith II, Rickard von Essen. The inclusion of Mitchell Hashimoto, Jack Pearkes, Mark Peek, Ross Smith II, Rickard von Essen trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Mitchell Hashimoto, Jack Pearkes, Mark Peek, Ross Smith II, Rickard von Essen goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Some Checks Are Exempted or Have Failed

Not All Tests Have Passed


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Exemption:

Temporarily exempted from package-verifier due to this issue: https://github.com/chocolatey/home/issues/11

Details

Scan Testing Resulted in Flagged as a Note:

At least one file within this package has greater than 0 detections, but less than 5

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Packer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Packer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Packer, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade packer -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade packer -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install packer
  win_chocolatey:
    name: packer
    version: '1.12.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'packer' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '1.12.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller packer
{
    Name     = "packer"
    Version  = "1.12.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'packer':
  ensure   => '1.12.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 05 Feb 2025.

Description

Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$url = 'https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.12.0/packer_1.12.0_windows_386.zip'
$checksum = '4b73fc06614e64ea1fc3932175b00bb87b219dd3e27d85964d4bacdd47776cb7'
$checksumType = 'sha256'
$url64 = 'https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.12.0/packer_1.12.0_windows_amd64.zip'
$checksum64 = '3ce4e1d9901daba3355be03efd17b0f1d34a962cb5508de5a83368ed9070b216'
$checksumType64 = $checksumType
$legacyLocation = "$env:SystemDrive\HashiCorp\packer"
$unzipLocation = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\packer")) {
  if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\packer\tools")) {
    # clean old plugins and ignore files
    Write-Host "Removing old packer plugins"
    Remove-Item "$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\packer\tools\packer-*.*"
  }
} else {
  if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\chocolatey\lib\packer")) {
    if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\chocolatey\lib\packer\tools")) {
      # clean old plugins and ignore files
      Write-Host "Removing old packer plugins"
      Remove-Item "$env:ALLUSERSPROFILE\chocolatey\lib\packer\tools" -Include "packer-*.*"
    }
  }
}

$unzipLocation = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

Install-ChocolateyZipPackage "packer" "$url" "$unzipLocation" "$url64" `
 -checksum $checksum -checksumType $checksumType -checksum64 $checksum64 -checksumType64 $checksumType64

If (Test-Path $legacyLocation) {
  Write-Host "Removing old packer installation from $legacyLocation"
  Remove-Item $legacyLocation -Force -Recurse
}

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In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Packer 1.11.2 24743 Friday, September 27, 2024 Approved
Packer 1.11.0 20476 Monday, June 3, 2024 Approved
Packer 1.10.3 3888 Friday, May 17, 2024 Approved
Packer 1.10.2 11015 Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Approved
Packer 1.10.0 19640 Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.9.4 18074 Monday, September 18, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.9.3 128 Monday, September 18, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.9.2 9682 Thursday, July 27, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.9.1 9226 Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.9.0 486 Monday, June 12, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.8.7 7681 Sunday, May 7, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.8.6 302 Saturday, May 6, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.8.5 20169 Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Approved
Packer 1.8.4 16077 Monday, November 7, 2022 Approved
Packer 1.8.2 21766 Thursday, June 30, 2022 Approved
Packer 1.8.1 2900 Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Approved
Packer 1.8.0 14027 Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Approved
Packer 1.7.10 8734 Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Approved
Packer 1.7.8 14938 Friday, November 12, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.6 6214 Thursday, October 14, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.5 3839 Monday, September 27, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.4 8145 Tuesday, July 27, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.3 2647 Monday, July 12, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.2 12517 Monday, April 12, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.7.0 7665 Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.6.6 7857 Sunday, December 27, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.5 6038 Monday, November 2, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.4 2876 Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.3 2568 Saturday, September 26, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.2 7563 Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.1 3674 Monday, August 3, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.0 5588 Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.6 10883 Saturday, May 16, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.5 16101 Friday, March 27, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.4 5947 Thursday, February 20, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.3 268 Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.2 603 Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.1 4580 Sunday, December 29, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.5.0 1131 Thursday, December 19, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.5 9558 Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.4 3364 Sunday, October 6, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.3 6540 Thursday, August 22, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.2 8098 Saturday, June 29, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.1 6700 Friday, May 17, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.4.0 2668 Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.3.5 3822 Thursday, March 7, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.3.4 3141 Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Approved
Packer 1.3.3.20181213 3446 Thursday, December 13, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.3.3 1161 Sunday, December 9, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.3.2 3586 Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.3.1 2845 Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.3.0 992 Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.5 3424 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.4 3554 Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.3 2283 Thursday, April 26, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.2 1098 Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.1 2546 Thursday, March 8, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.2.0 1769 Saturday, February 10, 2018 Approved
Packer 1.1.3 2807 Saturday, December 9, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.1.2 1503 Thursday, November 16, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.1.1 3373 Sunday, October 15, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.1.0 1674 Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.0.4 1310 Monday, August 28, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.0.3 2232 Tuesday, July 18, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.0.2 1335 Thursday, June 22, 2017 Approved
Packer 1.0.0 3924 Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Approved
Packer 0.12.3 1764 Thursday, March 2, 2017 Approved
Packer 0.12.2 2078 Saturday, January 21, 2017 Approved
Packer 0.12.1 1539 Friday, December 16, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.12.0 1376 Friday, November 18, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.11.0 1358 Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.10.2 639 Thursday, October 20, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.10.1 2433 Saturday, May 7, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.10.0 1299 Thursday, March 17, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.9.0 1279 Sunday, February 21, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.8.6.20160211 1290 Thursday, February 11, 2016 Approved
Packer 0.8.6 2338 Monday, August 24, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.8.5 666 Tuesday, August 11, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.8.3 530 Saturday, August 8, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.8.2 720 Saturday, July 18, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.8.1 692 Thursday, July 2, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.7.5.20150603 756 Thursday, June 4, 2015 Approved
Packer 0.7.5 1538 Friday, December 12, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.7.2 765 Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.7.1 680 Sunday, September 14, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.7.0 543 Sunday, September 14, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.6.1 650 Friday, July 25, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.6.0 673 Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.5.2 612 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.5.1 592 Friday, January 3, 2014 Approved
Packer 0.5.0 540 Tuesday, December 31, 2013 Approved
Packer 0.4.1 557 Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Approved
Packer 0.4.0 547 Sunday, November 24, 2013 Approved
Packer 0.3.10 525 Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Approved
Packer 0.3.9 556 Friday, October 4, 2013 Approved
Packer 0.3.8 656 Monday, September 23, 2013 Approved

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