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".
The ability to use a service account other than the default was
introduced in #5928. This change adds to that by introducing the
'disable_default_service_account' config option. If true - and
'service_account_email' is not set - Packer will create a GCE VM
with no service account.
- startup scripts don't run for Windows since it is isn't implemented yet.
- startup scripts use instance metadata instead of serial port output to flag when they are done.
- added licenses to Image data type (to check if an Image is a Windows Image).
- added GetImage and GetImageFromProject to googlecompute Drivers.
- changed some of the builder/googlecompute tests to use github.com/stretchr/testify/assert.
Tests:
- (in the Packer directory) `go test .`, `go test ./builder/googlecompute`, and `go test ./post-processor/googlecompute-export`
- manual run of `packer build packer_template.json` with the following files
--packer_template.json--
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "googlecompute",
"account_file": "creds.json",
"project_id": "google.com:packer-test",
"source_image": "debian-8-jessie-v20160629",
"zone": "us-central1-a",
"startup_script_file": "startup_script.sh",
"metadata": {
"startup-script": "#!/bin/sh\necho \"This should be overwritten.\"",
"startup-script-log-dest": "gs://packer-test.google.com.a.appspot.com/startup-script.log"
},
"image_name": "test-packer-modifications",
"ssh_username": "foo"
}
],
"post-processors": [
{
"type": "googlecompute-export",
"paths": [
"gs://packer-test.google.com.a.appspot.com/foo.tar.gz",
"gs://packer-test.google.com.a.appspot.com/bar.tar.gz"
],
"keep_input_artifact": true
}
]
}
--startup_script.sh--
\#!/bin/sh
echo "Hi, my name is Scott. I'm waiting 60 seconds!" >> /scott
sleep 60
echo "I'm done waiting!" >> /scott
Fixes the following vet reports:
builder/googlecompute/step_create_instance_test.go:42: possible formatting directive in Fatal call
builder/googlecompute/step_teardown_instance_test.go:29: possible formatting directive in Fatal call
builder/googlecompute/step_teardown_instance_test.go:39: possible formatting directive in Fatal call