Example PR of why to delete images created during a pull request

[drewmullen]

This is an example PR to showcase the decision to delete images created during a PR. There are other ways to solve this problem. Ideally a 'dry-run' feature would be baked into Packer.

We delete artifacts (images) created by PR CI runs to avoid the 3 C's:

• Congestion: PRs with multiple commits will publish multiple images
• Confusion: With all the extra images you will undoubtedly have a hard time knowing which to use and may even use a bad or outdated image
• Cost: You pay for every image you publish and maintain

Stated plainly, PRs are opportunities to review code before it is added to your master branch. If you consider that artifacts are yielded from the code, the same logic also follows, artifacts outputted from PR CIs should also be used for review opportunity

[sarcasticadmin]

Im glad you remembered to bump the version

[xv-carlos-c]

I really don't understand why hashicorp is ignoring this request, I remember a couple years ago it was possible I had a boolean value being always true for PRs and and false when the build was from master/main