HCL Support?

[Stephen Nesbitt]

All:

Am I missing something or does Packer not support templates written in HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language)? 

If so, is there a technical reason for not doing so?

Is there a tool available that would allow me to generate json from hcl as an intermediate step?

Thx,

-steve

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Hey Stephen,

Packer predates HCL by a couple years, and we haven’t yet updated it to use HCL. There are plans to do so in the next year or so.

Best,

Mitchell

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[Stephen Nesbitt]

Good to hear its on the roadmap!

I did locate a python HCL parser: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyhcl

Haven't tried it yet, but thought I'd post for future reference.

-steve