Packer
Unikraft
@unikraft
The Unikraft plugin uses kraftkit to create and package runnable Unikraft unikernel images.
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Unikraft
Packer Plugin Unikraft
The Unikraft
multi-component plugin can be used with HashiCorp Packer
to create custom images. For the full list of available features for this plugin see docs.
Installation
Using pre-built releases
Using the packer init
command
Starting from version 1.7, Packer supports a new packer init
command allowing
automatic installation of Packer plugins. Read the
Packer documentation for more information.
To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration.
Then, run packer init
.
packer {
required_plugins {
unikraft = {
version = ">= 0.2.1"
source = "github.com/unikraft/unikraft"
}
}
}
Manual installation
You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here. Once you have downloaded the latest archive corresponding to your target OS, uncompress it to retrieve the plugin binary file corresponding to your platform. To install the plugin, please follow the Packer documentation on installing a plugin.
From Sources
If you prefer to build the plugin from sources, clone the GitHub repository
locally and run the command go build
from the root
directory. Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-unikraft
plugin
binary file can be found in the root directory.
To install the compiled plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation
on installing a plugin.
Components
Builders
unikraft - The builder builds Unikraft image using Kraftkit.
Post-Processors
unikraft - The post-processor takes build artifacts from the unikraft builder and packages it into an OCI-compatible image.