This is an Packer post-processor plugin which will write id of an artifact into the Buildkite job metadata store.

This has been used as part of the application build pipeline at Say Media.

Add the post-processor to your packer template:

{
    "post-processors": [
      {
        "type": "buildkite",
        "prefix": "example_a"
      }
    ]
}

Check out multi-test.json for an example.

Run:

$ go get github.com/saymedia/packer-post-processor-buildkite
$ go install github.com/saymedia/packer-post-processor-buildkite

Add the post-processor to ~/.packerconfig:

{
  "post-processors": {
    "buildkite": "packer-post-processor-buildkite"
  }
}

Install packer-post-processor-buildkite as detailed above.

Create a file called multi-test-variables.json with the contents similar to (use your own AWS values of course):

{
    "AWS_VPC_ID": "vpc-2421cc41",
    "AWS_SUBNET_ID": "subnet-49f75e2c",
    "AWS_SG_ID": "sg-9a57f80a",
    "AWS_AMI_ID": "ami-cb9d728f",
    "AWS_REGION": "us-west-1"
}

Run:

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY='<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY>'
$ export AWS_SECRET_KEY='<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_KEY>'
$ BUILDKITE_AGENT_ACCESS_TOKEN='<YOUR_BUILDKITE_AGENT_ACCESS_TOKEN>' BUILDKITE_JOB_ID='<YOUR_BUILDKITE_JOB_ID>' BUILDKITE_AGENT_ENDPOINT=https://agent.buildkite.com/v3 ./test.sh

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