Cutting Edge Bubble Text

packer-provisioner-comment is a demonstration provisioner to help teach people how to create and use their own third-party Packer plugins. It uses cutting-edge ascii art technology to add fancy bubble text comments to your Packer run output.

Installation

In order to install the plugin, simply clone the repo and run the following commands:

go mod init main
go build
mkdir ~/.packer.d/plugins
mv main ~/.packer.d/plugins/packer-provisioner-comment

Use

In order to test the plugin, create the following test file

{
    "builders": [
        {
            "type": "null",
            "communicator": "none"
        }
    ],
    "provisioners": [
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "comment": "Begin",
          "ui": true,
          "bubble_text": true
        },
        {
          "type": "shell-local",
          "inline": ["echo \"This is a shell script\""]
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "comment": "In the middle of Provisioning run",
          "ui": true
        },
        {
          "type": "shell-local",
          "inline": ["echo \"This is another shell script\""]
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "comment": "this comment is invisible and won't go to the UI"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "comment": "End",
          "ui": true,
          "bubble_text": true
        }
    ]
}

Options

There are three options for this provisioner. None are required, but there isn't really a point to the provisioner if you don't at least set comment

• comment (string): The string you want printed to the UI or to annotate the Packer template

• ui (bool): If true, this provisioner will print your comment to the UI. If false, this provisioner will do nothing. Default: false

• bubble_text (bool): Only use if ui is true, if true, this provisoner will print your comment in block letters to the UI. If false, won't do any fancy formatting and the comment will just appear as a bolded statement. Default: false

• packer_say - Packy, the unlicensed, unofficial (please don't tell Marketing!!) AI Packer friend, will say your comment in the terminal.