It is simply the best/simplest solution and trying to prevent users from passing and integer here would be like opening a can of worms. Because:
* we cannot make mapstructure validate our duration string ( with an UnmarshalJSON func etc.)
* we cannot make mapstructure spit a string instead of a duration and packer will decode-encode-decode config.
* the hcl2 generated code asks for a string, so this will be enforced by default.
Before this commit it was possible to set a duration using an integer or a float. Go's time.Duration is an int64 internally an mapstructure will take advantage of this and load the number as a int64 but `1` means one ns which is unexpected/confusing. To avoid confusion and enforce readability this forces users to pass a string with a unit for a duration; ex "56s".
Support for both local and remote TCP port tunneling. Includes updated
docs and tests.
Does not implement dynamic port forwarding (SSH's built-in SOCKS)
(uncertain difficulty) nor unix socket (potentially easy).
* add missing `temporary_key_pair_name` field for alicloud
* add missing description to `vpc_filter` for aws
* add missing ssh communicator fields for aws
* add links for aws
* update vmware-vmx docs
* manually describe AMI Configuration section for ebsvolume
* display missing required ami_name field for aws
* add missing fields for docker
* add missing fields for openstack
This commit adds an option to use the local SSH Agent to authenticate
connections to source instances started by the the EBS and Instance
Store builders.
This is of use when the source AMI _already_ has configuration for
authorized SSH keys - for example if one uses an SSH certificate
authority.
A further extension (not implemented in this commit) is to allow SSH
agent use with a pre-defined key pair, in order to allow keys with
passphrases to be used without giving the passphrase to Packer.
* Add new functions to communicator helper to return the user, password, host, based on the communicator used.
This implementation can help then generalize the provisioeners later on.
* Update null builder checks to utilize the new functions and check for ANY hostname or user or password
* Update builder to user any hostname
WinRM exposes an HTTP transport decorator that can be used for different
authentication schemes. Windows on Azures requires this if one is to use
the out of the box configuration.
