packer-builder-hcloud

Packer builder plugin for Hetzner Cloud.

This plugin can be used to build provisioned images (snapshots) for Hetzner Cloud. Those can be later used for rapid deploying using Terraform (check the official plugin).

Building

You'll need dep to install dependencies.

Clone the repository and run:

dep ensure
go build -o ~/.packer.d/plugins/packer-builder-hcloud

Example template

{
  "builders": [
      {
          "type": "hcloud",
          "token": "API_TOKEN",
          "server_type": "cx11",
          "source_image": "ubuntu-16.04",
          "image_name": "some-image",
          "location": "fsn1",
          "datacenter": "fsn1-dc8",
          "user_data": "",
          "ssh_username": "root"
      }
  ]
}

See https://github.com/m110/infrastructure-as-code for more complete example.

You can find server types and soure images querying the API.

Known issues

• For some reason, ansible-remote provider works only with paramiko connection.