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Announcing the removal of bundled plugins in HashiCorp Packer


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Since the beginning of the project, HashiCorp Packer has supported extending its capabilities through plugins. These plugins are built alongside community contributors and partners to help Packer support building images for many cloud providers and hypervisors. In the past, to help Packer users get up and running quickly, popular plugins were bundled into the main Packer binary. This had advantages, notably that users did not have to install plugins separately in order to use them.

However, as the plugin system grew, bundling all plugins introduced maintenance issues...

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