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document gotcha around third party plugins (#11032) 

* document gotcha around third party plugins
* Update website/content/docs/commands/hcl2_upgrade.mdx

Co-authored-by: Adrien Delorme <azr@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -98,9 +98,11 @@ working on improving this part of the transformer.
## Options
- `-output-file` - File where to put the hcl2 generated config. Defaults to
JSON_TEMPLATE.pkr.hcl
- `-with-annotations` - Adds helper annotations with information about the generated HCL2 blocks.
- `-output-file` - Filename of the hcl2 generated template. Defaults to
JSON_TEMPLATE.pkr.hcl; for example, if the file is called
"packerparty.json", the default output-file is "packerparty.json.pkr.hcl".
- `-with-annotations` - Adds helpful comments to the HCL template with
information about the generated HCL2 blocks.
## User variables using other user variables
@ -128,3 +130,10 @@ locals {
baz = "${var.foo} ${var.bar}"
}
```
## Upgrading templates that use third-party community plugins
If your template references a plugin that is not bundled with the main Packer
binary, you need to make sure that the [plugin is installed](/docs/plugins#installing-plugins)
or you will get an `unknown builder type` error. Packer needs to load the plugin
to transpose the template.