External

The External plugin is able to communicate with external commands.

Installation

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration, then run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    external = {
      version = "> 0.0.2"
      source  = "github.com/joomcode/external"
    }
  }
}

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

$ packer plugins install github.com/joomcode/external

Components

Data Sources

• external - Communicate with external commands using JSON protocol.
• external-raw - Communicate with external commands using plaintext protocol.