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README.md

Packer example

The following Packer example builds Compute Engine image based on Centos 8 Linux. The image is provisioned with a sample shell scripts to update OS packages and install HTTP server.

The example uses following GCP features:

service account impersonation
Identity-Aware Proxy tunnel

Variables

name	description	type	required	default
builder_sa	Image builder's service account email.	`string`	✓
compute_sa	Temporary's VM service account email.	`string`	✓
compute_subnetwork	Name of a VPC subnetwork for temporary VM instance.	`string`	✓
compute_zone	Compute Engine zone to run temporary VM instance.	`string`	✓
project_id	Project id that references existing GCP project.	`string`	✓
use_iap	Indicates to use IAP tunnel for communication with temporary VM instance.	`bool`		`true`