packer-plugin-keepass is a custom data source which allows the inclusion of credentials from a Keepass 2 database.

Starting from version 1.7, Packer supports a new packer init command allowing automatic installation of Packer plugins. Read the Packer documentation for more information.

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

packer {
  required_plugins {
    keepass = {
      version = ">= 0.3.1"
      source  = "github.com/chunqi/keepass"
    }
  }
}

You can find pre-built binary releases of the plugin here. Once you have downloaded the latest archive corresponding to your target OS, uncompress it to retrieve the plugin binary file corresponding to your platform. To install the plugin, please follow the Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

If you prefer to build the plugin from sources, clone the GitHub repository locally and run the command go build from the root directory. Upon successful compilation, a packer-plugin-keepass plugin binary file can be found in the root directory. To install the compiled plugin, please follow the official Packer documentation on installing a plugin.

For more information on how to configure the plugin, please read the documentation located in the docs/ directory.

A general troubleshooting tip is to set the PACKER_LOG environment variable to observe the verbose output from the plugin.

Error: Datasource.Execute failed: open example.kdbx: no such file or directory

  on example/data.pkr.hcl line 1:
  (source code not available)

Note that the file path should be relative to the location where you invoke packer.

Error: Datasource.Execute failed: Wrong password? Database integrity check failed

  on example/data.pkr.hcl line 1:
  (source code not available)

Check that you have entered the master password correctly within the packer file or the corresponding environment variable is set properly.

Error: Invalid index

  on example/data.pkr.hcl line 7:
  (source code not available)

The given key does not identify an element in this collection value.

Make sure that you are referencing a valid key within the map.