From 836eea6fc6035c2bf0c5235487b768446079862f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nic O'Connor <nic.oconnor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:08:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] bin/install.sh: add packer installation

---
 README.md      | 16 ++++++++--------
 bin/install.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ebee5cd..23df411 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@ Already have a clone? Just run it directly:
   linked release binaries into `~/.local/bin`: jq, kubectl, helm, k9s,
   kubectx/kubens, stern, yq, OpenTofu, terragrunt, task (go-task, the
   Taskfile runner), the 1Password CLI `op` for secrets storage, the
-  opencode coding agent, and zarf (DevSecOps for Offline and Airgapped
-  Kubernetes). kind is installed
-  only when full (non-rootless) Docker is available — it doesn't work
-  against rootless Docker, so it is skipped on Kasm. No sudo, nothing
-  outside `$HOME`, so tools persist across Kasm redeploys with no
-  reinstall. Idempotent: each tool records its version under
-  `~/.local/bin/.versions` and is skipped when the pinned version is
-  already present. `zsh/zshrc` puts `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`.
+  opencode coding agent, zarf (DevSecOps for Offline and Airgapped
+  Kubernetes), and packer (HashiCorp's infrastructure build tool).
+  kind is installed only when full (non-rootless) Docker is available —
+  it doesn't work against rootless Docker, so it is skipped on Kasm.
+  No sudo, nothing outside `$HOME`, so tools persist across Kasm
+  redeploys with no reinstall. Idempotent: each tool records its version
+  under `~/.local/bin/.versions` and is skipped when the pinned version
+  is already present. `zsh/zshrc` puts `~/.local/bin` on `PATH`.
 
   opencode is configured by `mcp-config/`: it points at the covert-gpt
   LiteLLM gateway (`https://llm.covert-gpt.com/v1` for models,
diff --git a/bin/install.sh b/bin/install.sh
index e86c741..15caf15 100755
--- a/bin/install.sh
+++ b/bin/install.sh
@@ -179,6 +179,21 @@ install_task() {
   mark_version task "$ver"
 }
 
+# packer — infrastructure as code build tool (single static binary).
+install_packer() {
+  ver=1.15.4
+  have_version packer "$ver" && { fsay "packer $ver already installed."; return 0; }
+  case "$(fetch_arch)" in
+    x86_64) _packer_arch=amd64 ;;
+    aarch64) _packer_arch=arm64 ;;
+    *) fsay "packer: unsupported arch $(uname -m)"; return 1 ;;
+  esac
+  install_zip_bin \
+    "https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/$ver/packer_${ver}_linux_$_packer_arch.zip" \
+    packer packer
+  mark_version packer "$ver"
+}
+
 # terragrunt — thin wrapper around tofu/terraform (single static binary).
 install_terragrunt() {
   ver=v1.1.0
@@ -226,6 +241,7 @@ try install_terragrunt
 try install_1p
 try install_opencode
 try install_zarf
+try install_packer
 
 if [ -n "$FAILED" ]; then
   fsay ""