File Builder

Type: file Artifact BuilderId: packer.file

The file Packer builder is not really a builder, it just creates an artifact from a file. It can be used to debug post-processors without incurring high wait times.

Basic Example

Below is a fully functioning example. It create a file at target with the specified content.

{
  "type": "file",
  "content": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
  "target": "dummy_artifact"
}

source "file" "basic-example" {
  content =  "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"
  target =  "dummy_artifact"
}

build {
  sources = ["sources.file.basic-example"]
}

Configuration Reference

Configuration options are organized below into two categories: required and optional. Within each category, the available options are alphabetized and described.

Any communicator defined is ignored.

Required:

• target (string) - The path for the artifact file that will be created. If the path contains directories that don't exist, Packer will create them, too.

Optional:

You can only define one of source or content. If none of them is defined the artifact will be empty.

• source (string) - The path for a file which will be copied as the artifact.

• content (string) - The content that will be put into the artifact.