Packer deprecating plugin method with JSON configurations

[wsmelton]

I'm sure the team is aware but thought I would ask to confirm. I'm seeing this in a build output running Linux Ubuntu 2004.

Warning: Bundled plugins used

This template relies on the use of plugins bundled into the Packer binary.
The practice of bundling external plugins into Packer will be removed in an
upcoming version.

To remove this warning and ensure builds keep working you can install these
external plugins with the 'packer plugins install' command

* packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/azure

Alternatively, if you upgrade your templates to HCL2, you can use 'packer init'
with a 'required_plugins' block to automatically install external plugins.

You can try HCL2 by running 'packer hcl2_upgrade
/agent/_work/1/s/RunnerImages/images/linux/ubuntu2004-temp.json'

Ubuntu 2004, and none of the Windows, have an HCL2 file. Is there any plans on updating these or known when Packer plans on removing the old format?

[mikhailkoliada]

Hey! We do not plan to force the transition, i.e. the update process will happen with the new OS versions being added.