add packerlicious - packer template generation in python

Created by: mayn

What is this Python project?

packerlicious is a python library to create packer templates in python.

example usage:

from packerlicious import builder, provisioner, Template

template = Template()
template.add_builder(
    builder.AmazonEbs(
        access_key="...",
        secret_key="...",
        region="us-east-1",
        source_ami="ami-fce3c696",
        instance_type="t2.micro",
        ssh_username="ubuntu",
        ami_name="packer {{timestamp}}"
    )
)

template.add_provisioner(
    provisioner.Shell(
        script="setup_things.sh"
    )
)

print(template.to_json())

resulting packer template:

    {
      "builders": [
        {
          "access_key": "...",
          "ami_name": "packer {{timestamp}}",
          "instance_type": "t2.micro",
          "region": "us-east-1",
          "secret_key": "...",
          "source_ami": "ami-fce3c696",
          "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
          "type": "amazon-ebs"
        }
      ],
      "provisioners": [
        {
          "script": "setup_things.sh",
          "type": "shell"
        }
      ]
    }

What's the difference between this Python project and similar ones?

• only one that supports expressing packer templates in python

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