How to contribute post-processor

[Scott Kellish]

Hi, 

New to this and didnt see a guideline anywhere. I developed a post-processor for creating encrypted versions of amis produced by the amazon-ebs builder that I would like to share. 

How do I go about doing that?

Thanks

Scott

[Rickard von Essen]

Hi Scott,

The best way is to read CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo and open a pull request.

Looking forward to it.

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[Scott Kellish]

Hi Rickard,,

Thanks. I should have been more specific in my question. I've read the CONTRIBUTING.md which only talks about contributing changes the Packer source itself. My understanding that developing plug-ins (which is how I've implemented by post-processor) is the preferred method rather than submitting changes to the packer source. Do I just check me code into my own github account or is there something like a central "packer" github for publishing "plug-ins"?

Scott

On Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 10:03:02 AM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:

Hi Scott,

The best way is to read CONTRIBUTING.md in the repo and open a pull request.

Looking forward to it.

On Sep 18, 2016 3:24 PM, "Scott Kellish" <skel...@comcast.net> wrote:

Hi, 

New to this and didnt see a guideline anywhere. I developed a post-processor for creating encrypted versions of amis produced by the amazon-ebs builder that I would like to share. 

How do I go about doing that?

Thanks

Scott

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[Rickard von Essen]

Ok, you have two options 1) Distribute it as a standalone packer plugin, 2) contribute it to the packer core plugins. 

First some general info about the plugin system can be found here. It's slightly outdated, first all core packer plugins are now bundled in one binary packer and there are no separate binary for say packer-builder-amazon-ebs anymore. And command plugins are not supported any longer.

1) You can maintain your own repo with the code for your repo and instructions to build/download it. For an old example see packer-parallels. The benefit is that you regain full control. The drawback is that less users will find it and there is a extra installation step. Currently there are no official list of 3pp plugins, but it have been talked about.

2) Open a PR to packer. Almost everything in packer is a plugin, core plugins are distributed with packer and now built in to a single binary. If your plugin is general and target AWS I think it's at least a good candidate for a review of inclusion into the packer core plugins.

// Rickard