Artifactory

Packer Plugin for Artifactory

The Packer Plugin for Artifactory is a post-processor (artifactory) that can be used with HashiCorp Packer to upload virtual machine artifacts to JFrog Artifactory.

Installation

To install this plugin add this code into your Packer configuration and run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    artifactory = {
      source  = "github.com/tenthirtyam/artifactory"
      version = ">=0.1.0"
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can use packer plugins install to manage installation of this plugin.

packer plugins install github.com/tenthirtyam/artifactory@v0.1.0

Supported Platforms

This plugin supports the following platforms:

Platform	Type	Support
VMware vSphere	Bare Metal Hypervisor	Supported
VMware Fusion	Desktop Hypervisor (macOS)	Supported
VMware Workstation	Desktop Hypervisor (Windows/Linux)	Supported
Other	Various	Best Effort

Note: While the plugin may function with other platforms that generate OVA/OVF files, official testing and support are currently limited to the VMware by Broadcom ecosystem.

Supported Artifacts

The plugin supports the following artifacts:

OVA: .ova - A single compressed archive package containing the supporting virtual machine files.
OVF: .ovf - An array of virtual machine files supporting an Open Virtualization Format package.

Authentication

The plugin supports the following Artifactory authentication methods:

Username and Password
API Key
Access Token

Environment Variables

# Option 1: Username and Password
export ARTIFACTORY_USERNAME="your-username"
export ARTIFACTORY_PASSWORD="your-password"

# Option 2: API key
export ARTIFACTORY_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Option 3: Access Token
export ARTIFACTORY_TOKEN="your-token"

Example

build {
  # ...
  post-processor "artifactory" {
    url                      = var.artifactory_url
    username                 = var.artifactory_username
    password                 = var.artifactory_password
    repository               = var.artifactory_repository
    artifact_name            = local.artifact_name
    artifact_path            = local.artifact_path
    artifact_path_properties = true
    properties = {
      "version.number"  = "1.0.0"
      "build.number"    = "12345678"
      "release.channel" = "stable"
      "os.family"       = "linux"
      "os.vendor"       = "debian"
      "os.version"      = "13.6.0"
      "os.arch"         = "amd64"
    }
  }
}

Reference

For detailed configuration options, see the documentation.

Examples

Examples are available in the examples directory of the GitHub repository.