Ansible Role: Packer

Installs Packer, a Go-based image and box builder.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

packer_version: "1.0.0"

The Packer version to install.

packer_arch: "amd64"

The system architecture (e.g. 386 or amd64) to use.

packer_bin_path: /usr/local/bin

The location where the Packer binary will be installed (should be in system $PATH).

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - geerlingguy.packer

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2017 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.