From ff9596eb4cdb024b01d6671610f4f82d7ebf5a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Troy Lindsay <tlindsay42@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:59:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude .pkrvars.hcl files

* Used description for .tfvars in Terraform.gitignore as a template
---
 Packer.gitignore | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Packer.gitignore b/Packer.gitignore
index f2d0a319..6a573381 100644
--- a/Packer.gitignore
+++ b/Packer.gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,13 @@ packer_cache/
 # Crash log
 crash.log
 
+# https://www.packer.io/guides/hcl/variables
+# Exclude all .pkrvars.hcl files, which are likely to contain sentitive data, 
+# such as password, private keys, and other secrets. These should not be part of 
+# version control as they are data points which are potentially sensitive and 
+# subject to change depending on the environment.
+#
+*.pkrvars.hcl
+
 # For built boxes
 *.box