Packer Roadmap - HashiConf 2022
summary
Packer roadmap outlines concrete releases: Packer reports 2 million downloads and 48 plugins and adds HCP Packer features like an auto-managed latest channel that publishes successful iterations and performs automatic rollback, a registry data source for Terraform, live ancestry tracking with dependency status, and one-click rollback plus multi-level revocation to remove downstream images. Security tooling arrives via the community mondu plugin and enhanced provenance, audit-log streaming, webhooks, JSON template support, and tighter Terraform integration with drift detection and continuous validation.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction to Packer
- 1:03Build workflow and ecosystem
- 2:49Security in the build pipeline
- 4:54Packer 2.0 and HCP Packer
- 6:40Channel lifecycle improvements
- 8:07Unified workflow with Terraform
- 9:31HCL builder in registry
- 10:33Drift detection and validation
- 12:17Day two operations in HCP Packer
- 13:21Webhooks for release workflows
- 14:02Golden image factory concept
- 15:27Ancestry tracking in HCP Packer
- 17:11Multi-level revocation
- 18:14JSON template support
- 19:17Audit log streaming
- 20:00Supply chain security urgency
- 21:05SALSA framework overview
- 22:29Provenance and metadata
- 24:13Future of Packer and HCP Packer
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