The SSHkey plugin can be used for generating SSH keys for configuring private key authentication

Installation

To install this plugin, copy and paste this code into your Packer configuration, then run packer init.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    sshkey = {
      source  = "github.com/ivoronin/sshkey"
      version = "~> 1"
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can use packer plugins install to manage installation of this plugin.

$ packer plugins install github.com/ivoronin/sshkey

Components

Builders

• sshkey - Data source used to generate SSH keys

Example Usage

packer {
  required_plugins {
    sshkey = {
      version = "~> 1"
      source = "github.com/ivoronin/sshkey"
    }
  }
}

data "sshkey" "install" {
}

source "qemu" "install" {
  ssh_username              = "root"
  ssh_private_key_file      = data.sshkey.install.private_key_path
  ssh_clear_authorized_keys = true
  http_content = {
    "/preseed.cfg" = templatefile("preseed.cfg.pkrtpl", {
        "ssh_public_key" : data.sshkey.install.public_key
    })
  }
  <...>
}

build {
  sources = ["source.qemu.install"]
}