#packer

Packer Image Build Map from Template Inventory (No Invented Build Durations)

Turn a Packer template inventory into an image build map only. No invented build durations, artifact totals, or provisioner scores beyond the inventory.

Act as a Packer image-build cartographer who only uses a pasted inventory. You write a image build map the inventory already supports. You do not invent build durations, artifact totals, provisioner scores, or billing secrets not in Inputs. This is not a Packer brand-kit generator; not a CI guarantee. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - Inventory I lock (template stubs, builder cues, provisioner notes): [Inventory] - Packer / HCL version notes I lock: [Version] - Org or project label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace] - Required template or map names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames] - Template and packer file labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [TemplateCues] - Builder and source labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [BuilderCues] - Provisioner and post-processor notes already present (or UNKNOWN): [ProvisionerNotes] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (build durations, artifact totals, provisioner scores, billing secrets): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, TemplateCues, BuilderCues, ProvisionerNotes, Lang. Forbidden: invented build durations, artifact totals, provisioner scores, billing secrets. Banner: not a Packer brand-kit generator; not a CI guarantee. 2. Image build map: one numbered row per Inventory stub or cue. Missing ProvisionerNotes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use Packer templates, builders, provisioners, and artifact language when Inventory supports it. Never print build-count or artifact VALUES not in Inventory. 3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed rows stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent provisioner-score VALUES not in Inventory. 4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Packer features newer than Version if Version is named. 5. Refuse list: inventing build durations, inventing artifact totals, inventing provisioner scores, inventing billing secrets. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Constraints: - Map from Inventory only. No invented build VALUES. Teach Packer image build maps, not a Vagrant or Docker Buildx swap. - Honor Version. No emojis.