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Remove reference to deprecated single components
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nywilken committed Dec 5, 2023
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- [`github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/plugin`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/plugin) - Contains the code to serve the plugin. This handles all the inter-process communication.

Basic examples of serving your component are shown below. Note that if you
define a multi-component plugin, you can (but do not need to) add more than one
component per plugin binary. The multi-component plugin is also compatible with
download and installation via `packer init`, whereas the single-component plugin
is not.

<Tabs>

<Tab heading="Multi-component Plugin (recommended) ">
Basic examples of serving your component are shown below.

```go
// main.go
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- the `my-foo` post-processor
- the `my-bar` provisioner

</Tab>

<Tab heading="Single Component Plugin (deprecated)">

```go
// main.go

import (
"github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk/plugin"
)

// Assume this implements the packer.Builder interface
type Builder struct{}

func main() {
server, err := plugin.Server()
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
server.RegisterBuilder(new(Builder))
server.Serve()
}
```

This `server.Serve()` invocation handles all the details of communicating with
Packer core and serving your component over RPC. As long as your struct being
registered implements one of the component interfaces, Packer will now be able
to launch your plugin and use it.

Please note that single-component plugins exist for backwards-compatability. We
would rather you register your component using the multi-component method shown
in the other tab, even if you only have one component in your binary. This is
because the `packer init` command only supports multi-component plugins.

</Tab>
</Tabs>

Next, build your plugin as you would any other Go application. The resulting
binary is the plugin that can be installed using
[standard installation procedures](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/plugins#installing-plugins).
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