Downloads:

165,730

Downloads of v 1.4.1:

6,555

Last Update:

17 May 2019

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

This is not the latest version of Packer available.

1.4.1 | Updated: 17 May 2019

Downloads:

165,730

Downloads of v 1.4.1:

6,555

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 1.4.1

This is not the latest version of Packer available.

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Details

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

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

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

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

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

  • 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. Enter your internal repository url

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

4. Choose your deployment method:


choco upgrade packer -y --source="'STEP 3 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="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

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

Exit $exitCode


- name: Ensure packer installed
  win_chocolatey:
    name: packer
    state: present
    version: 1.4.1
    source: STEP 3 URL

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


chocolatey_package 'packer' do
  action    :install
  version  '1.4.1'
  source   'STEP 3 URL'
end

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


Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
    Name: packer,
    Version: 1.4.1,
    Source: STEP 3 URL
);

Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.


cChocoPackageInstaller packer
{
   Name     = 'packer'
   Ensure   = 'Present'
   Version  = '1.4.1'
   Source   = 'STEP 3 URL'
}

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


package { 'packer':
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  ensure   => '1.4.1',
  source   => 'STEP 3 URL',
}

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


salt '*' chocolatey.install packer version="1.4.1" source="STEP 3 URL"

See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.

5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

This package was approved as a trusted package on 20 Jun 2019.

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/1.4.1/packer_1.4.1_windows_386.zip'
$checksum = '943a3fd48b86cbc9e0014358d0cf662aa6827315ac61c613de62eb4cd59ae6e7'
$checksumType = 'sha256'
$url64 = 'https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.4.1/packer_1.4.1_windows_amd64.zip'
$checksum64 = '78416314aecbc166486fd8a7784523436c5c8673a1788047b14140f43977d72c'
$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.

Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Packer 1.7.0 6937 Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Approved
Packer 1.6.6 6062 Sunday, December 27, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.5 5766 Monday, November 2, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.4 2521 Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.3 2432 Saturday, September 26, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.2 4306 Tuesday, September 1, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.1 3455 Monday, August 3, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.6.0 5040 Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.6 3418 Saturday, May 16, 2020 Approved
Packer 1.5.5 10251 Friday, March 27, 2020 Approved

This package has no dependencies.

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