The HashiCorp Packer Plugin Repository, What’s init?

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Packer 1.7 ships a GitHub-backed Packer Plugin Repository and the packer init command that automatically downloads plugin binaries defined in an ACL-only required_plugins block; the release includes an SDK (v0.1) and an SDK migrator tool because the plugin protocol moves from API v4 to v5.0, a breaking change. Multicomponent plugins (example: docker combining builder, import/push/save/tag post-processors) install and run during demo builds, and bundled plugins (≈92) are slated to split into separate repos by 1.8.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Packer
2. 1:49Evolution of Packer
3. 8:54Plugin bundling challenges
4. 10:42Packer plugin repository vision
5. 13:11Maintainer tools and SDK
6. 18:55Practitioner workflow with Packer
7. 24:38Demo of Packer init
8. 25:40Demo of plugin aliasing
9. 28:35Demo of plugin upgrades
10. 30:01Future of Packer plugins
11. 31:43Call to action and Q&A

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