Support for Packer

[hendrikhalkow]

As an SRE, I'd like to build virtual machine images via Packer. These virtual machine images depend on existing virtual machine images. The getting started guide references the parent image via source_ami_filter to get the latest image of whatever, but I'd rather use source_ami which would be kept up to date via Dependabot.

Consider the following example:

source "amazon-ebs" "this" {
  // This reference needs to be kept up to date via Packer,
  // similar to the `source_ami_filter` in the example at
  // https://packer.io/intro/getting-started/build-image.html
  source_ami = "ami-..."

  ami_name = "..."
  // ...
}

build {
 // ...
}

[khorwood]

Related to this, as a heavy user of Terraform it would be a great feature if Dependabot's Terraform support could be updated to track and recommend AMI updates to public images.

[algo7]

any news on this one?

[rzmnd]

Any news on this?