HCP Packer Registry data sources overview

The HCP Packer Registry connects artifact factories and artifact deployments so that development and security teams can work together to create, manage, and consume artifacts in a centralized way.

Introduction

The HCP Packer Registry stores metadata about your artifacts, including when they were created, where the artifacts exists in the cloud, and git commit information associated with your build. You can use the registry to track information about the artifacts your Packer builds produce, clearly designate which artifacts are appropriate for test and production environments, and query for the right artifacts to use in both Packer and Terraform configurations.

The following Packer data sources work together to determine and retrieve information from the HCP Packer registry:

• hcp-packer-version: Retrieves information about an HCP Packer version in the HCP Packer registry.
• hcp-packer-artifact: Retrieves information about a specific artifact created in the HCP Packer registry.

The following data source types are deprecated since v1.10.1:

• hcp-packer-iteration: Retrieves information about an iteration in HCP Packer registry. This data source type is deprecated. Use hcp-packer-version instead.
• hcp-packer-image: Retrieves information about a specific image created in the HCP Packer registry. This data source type is deprecated. Use hcp-packer-artifact instead.