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hey, we don't have a public roadmap (cc <@UB3BGTV63>) but I'd love to know a little bit about what you mean by Packer being on the roadmap? are you looking for a packer replacement?

Great question <@U011HRS1HTQ> Product roadmaps make for easier adoption in corporate environments. Will a roadmap happen in 2020? (<@UCWG26BH7>)

<@UCWG26BH7> no to a replacement, I suppose an official Provider. Like you have for HashiCorp Vault. Although, I have never looked into Packer and writing to an API, if they have one. We just utilize Packer to build our AMI's, would be nice to be able to ingest that as a resource in Pulumi and use it, rather than using GetAMI API call with filters. For example, I need an EC2 server which installs X dependancies, then copies all required files to server. So my thought process is to create an AMI pipeline for our base AMI, then use our base AMI to create a new app specific AMI. Then we stand up our EC2's in maybe an ASG or maybe standalone.

because packer is just a CLI tool and doesn't have an API, it'll be tough for us to create a pulumi provider for it. it looks like the upstream provider is going to add support for the ec2 image builder at some point though

you can already so some implementation of this using CloudFormation: <https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/ec2-image-builder-now-includes-support-for-aws-cloudformation/>

There is a high level roadmap at <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/wiki/Roadmap>.  More granularly, issues in the `current` milestone are being worked on "now", and other issues are prioritized by severity and/or by upvotes.  If something is important to you - definitely do :+1: it so we can prioritize it vs. other open source investments.  Also - if there is not yet an issue tracking something - please open it.  And if you *really* want to see something supported in Pulumi - PRs very welcome! :smile: