Packer ovftool post-processor

Exposes VMware's OVF Tool as a Packer post-processor, enabling VMware builds to produce OVA/OVF artifacts.

For the sake of simplicity, only a few of ovftool's options are currently exposed, but adding more would be a simple task. Contributions are welcome.

Usage

Add the post-processor to your packer template:

{
    "post-processors": [{
        "type": "ovftool",
        "only": ["vmware"],
        "format": "ova"
    }]
}

Available configuration options:

target: The path where the artifact should be created, without the file extension. This is a configuration template. Defaults to packer_{{.BuildName}}_{{.Provider}}.
format: The target type to create, either "ova" or "ovf". Defaults to "ovf" if not specified.
compression: The compression level to use when creating the artifact. A number from 1-9. Default value is 0, meaning no compression.

Run:

$ go get github.com/rullmann/packer-post-processor-ovftool
$ go install github.com/rullmann/packer-post-processor-ovftool

Copy the binary to ~/.packer.d/plugins/:

$ cp ${GOPATH}/bin/packer-post-processor-ovftool ~/.packer.d/plugins/