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The DigitalOcean Packer plugin provides a builder for building images in DigitalOcean, and a post-processor for importing already-existing images into DigitalOcean.

Installation

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

packer {
  required_plugins {
    digitalocean = {
      version = ">= 1.0.4"
      source  = "github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean"
    }
  }
}

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

$ packer plugins install github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean

Components

Builders

• digitalocean - The builder takes a source image, runs any provisioning necessary on the image after launching it, then snapshots it into a reusable image. This reusable image can then be used as the foundation of new servers that are launched within DigitalOcean.

Data Sources

• digitalocean-image - The DigitalOcean image data source is used look up the ID of an existing DigitalOcean image for use as a builder source.

Post-processors

• digitalocean-import -processor](/docs/post-processors/digitalocean-import.mdx) - The digitalocean-import post-processor is used to import images to DigitalOcean