Skip to content

docs: add usage clarification to File builder #13536

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
RamsaiPolisetti wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

docs: add usage clarification to File builder #13536

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions website/content/docs/builders/file.mdx
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -74,3 +74,11 @@ the artifact will be empty.
artifact.

- `content` (string) - The content that will be put into the artifact.
## Note on Usage

When using the File builder, ensure that the source path you provide
exists on the local machine running Packer. If the path is incorrect,
Packer will return a "file not found" error during the build stage.

This small clarification helps avoid common mistakes when working with
local-file-based artifact generation.