github.com/daniellockard/packer@v0.7.6-0.20141210173435-5a9390934716/website/source/docs/post-processors/compress.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "compress Post-Processor" 4 description: |- 5 The Packer compress post-processor takes an artifact with files (such as from VMware or VirtualBox) and gzip compresses the artifact into a single archive. 6 --- 7 8 # Compress Post-Processor 9 10 Type: `compress` 11 12 The Packer compress post-processor takes an artifact with files (such as from 13 VMware or VirtualBox) and gzip compresses the artifact into a single 14 archive. 15 16 ## Configuration 17 18 The configuration for this post-processor is extremely simple. 19 20 * `output` (string) - The path to save the compressed archive. 21 22 ## Example 23 24 An example is shown below, showing only the post-processor configuration: 25 26 ```javascript 27 { 28 "type": "compress", 29 "output": "foo.tar.gz" 30 } 31 ```