Docker Tag Post-Processor

Type: docker-tag

The Packer Docker Tag post-processor takes an artifact from the docker builder that was committed and tags it into a repository. This allows you to use the other Docker post-processors such as docker-push to push the image to a registry.

This is very similar to the docker-import post-processor except that this works with committed resources, rather than exported.

Configuration

The configuration for this post-processor requires repository, all other settings are optional.

repository (string) - The repository of the image.
tags (array of strings) - A list of tags for the image. By default this is not set. Example of declaration: "tags": ["mytag-1", "mytag-2"]
force (boolean) - If true, this post-processor forcibly tag the image even if tag name is collided. Default to false. But it will be ignored if Docker >= 1.12.0 was detected, since the force option was removed after 1.12.0. reference
keep_input_artifact (boolean) - Unlike most other post-processors, the keep_input_artifact option will have no effect for the docker-tag post-processor. We will always retain the input artifact for docker-tag, since deleting the image we just tagged is not a behavior anyone should ever expect. keep_input_artifact will therefore always be evaluated as true, regardless of the value you enter into this field.

Example

An example is shown below, showing only the post-processor configuration:

{
  "type": "docker-tag",
  "repository": "hashicorp/packer",
  "tags": ["0.7", "anothertag"]
}

This example would take the image created by the Docker builder and tag it into the local Docker process with a name of hashicorp/packer:0.7.

Following this, you can use the docker-push post-processor to push it to a registry, if you want.