Drop support for Equinix Metal (Packet)

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <jlecuirot@microsoft.com>

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -189,15 +189,6 @@ jobs:
 
           images_out="images"
 
-          has_packet=0
-          has_pxe=0
-          formats="${IMAGE_FORMATS}"
-          for format in "${formats}";do
-            [[ "${format}" = 'packet' ]] || [[ "${format}" = 'equinix_metal' ]] && has_packet=1
-            [[ "${format}" = 'pxe' ]] && has_pxe=1
-          done
-
-          [[ ${has_packet} -eq 1 ]] && [[ ${has_pxe} -eq 0 ]] && set -- 'pxe' "${@}"
           if echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -q '^vmware'; then
             formats=$(echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | sed '/vmware.*/d')
             formats+=" vmware vmware_insecure vmware_ova vmware_raw"
@@ -206,8 +197,6 @@ jobs:
             formats=$(echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | sed '/ami.*/d' | sed '/aws/d')
             formats+=" ami ami_vmdk"
           fi
-          # Keep compatibility with SDK scripts where "equinix_metal" remains unknown.
-          formats=$(echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | sed 's/equinix_metal/packet/g')
 
           for format in ${formats}; do
               if [ "${format}" = qemu ] || [ "${format}" = qemu_uefi_secure ]; then

build_library/vm_image_util.sh

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ VALID_IMG_TYPES=(
     kubevirt
     openstack
     openstack_mini
-    packet
     parallels
     proxmoxve
     pxe
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ VALID_OEM_PACKAGES=(
     hyperv
     kubevirt
     openstack
-    packet
     proxmoxve
     qemu
     scaleway
@@ -281,10 +279,6 @@ IMG_hyperv_vhdx_OEM_SYSEXT=oem-hyperv
 IMG_cloudsigma_DISK_FORMAT=qcow2
 IMG_cloudsigma_OEM_PACKAGE=oem-cloudsigma
 
-## packet
-IMG_packet_OEM_PACKAGE=common-oem-files
-IMG_packet_OEM_SYSEXT=oem-packet
-
 ## scaleway
 IMG_scaleway_DISK_FORMAT=qcow2
 IMG_scaleway_DISK_LAYOUT=vm
@@ -878,15 +872,6 @@ You can pass extra kernel parameters with -append, for example:
 When using -nographic or -serial you must also enable the serial console:
   ./$(basename "${script}") -nographic -append 'console=ttyS0,115200n8'
 EOF
-    local packetipxe="$(_dst_dir)/flatcar_production_packet.ipxe"
-    cat > "$packetipxe" <<EOF
-#!ipxe
-
-kernel flatcar_production_pxe.vmlinuz initrd=flatcar_production_pxe_image.cpio.gz flatcar.first_boot=1 flatcar.oem.id=packet console=ttyS1,115200n8 flatcar.autologin
-initrd flatcar_production_pxe_image.cpio.gz
-boot
-EOF
-    VM_GENERATED_FILES+=( "$packetipxe" )
 }
 
 _write_iso_conf() {

changelog/changes/2026-04-23-equinix-metal.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Dropped support for Equinix Metal (Packet). The servers are due to be switched off on June 30th 2026.

ci-automation/test.sh

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #
 #   1. Architecture (ARCH) of the TARGET vm images ("arm64", "amd64").
 #   2. Image type to be tested. One of:
-#      ami, azure, azure_pro, digitalocean, gce, gce_pro, packet, qemu, qemu_uefi, vmware
+#      ami, azure, azure_pro, digitalocean, gce, gce_pro, qemu, qemu_uefi, vmware
 #
 # OPTIONAL INPUT:
 #

ci-automation/vms.sh

@@ -79,16 +79,6 @@ function _vm_build_impl() {
 
     apply_local_patches
 
-    # automatically add PXE to formats if we build for Equinix Metal (packet).
-    local has_packet=0
-    local has_pxe=0
-    for format; do
-        [[ "${format}" = 'packet' ]] || [[ "${format}" = 'equinix_metal' ]] && has_packet=1
-        [[ "${format}" = 'pxe' ]] && has_pxe=1
-    done
-
-    [[ ${has_packet} -eq 1 ]] && [[ ${has_pxe} -eq 0 ]] && set -- 'pxe' "${@}"
-
     # Convert platform names (also used to find the test scripts) to image formats they entail
     formats="$*"
     if echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -q '^vmware'; then
@@ -99,8 +89,6 @@ function _vm_build_impl() {
       formats=$(echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | sed '/ami.*/d' | sed '/aws/d')
       formats+=" ami ami_vmdk"
     fi
-    # Keep compatibility with SDK scripts where "equinix_metal" remains unknown.
-    formats=$(echo "$formats" | tr ' ' '\n' | sed 's/equinix_metal/packet/g')
 
     source sdk_lib/sdk_container_common.sh
 

pkg_auto/impl/for-shellcheck/globals

@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ LISTING_KINDS=(
     ['hetzner']='oem-hetzner_packages.txt'
     ['kubevirt']='oem-kubevirt_packages.txt'
     ['openstack']='oem-openstack_packages.txt'
-    ['packet']='oem-packet_packages.txt'
     ['prod']='flatcar_production_image_packages.txt'
     ['proxmoxve']='oem-proxmoxve_packages.txt'
     ['qemu']='oem-qemu_packages.txt'

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/afterburn/files/coreos-metadata.service

@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ ConditionKernelCommandLine=|coreos.oem.id=gce
 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|flatcar.oem.id=openstack
 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|coreos.oem.id=openstack
 
-ConditionKernelCommandLine=|flatcar.oem.id=packet
-ConditionKernelCommandLine=|coreos.oem.id=packet
-
 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|flatcar.oem.id=scaleway
 
 ConditionKernelCommandLine=|flatcar.oem.id=hetzner

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/common-oem-files/common-oem-files-0-r11.ebuild

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ COMMON_OEMIDS=(
     azure
     hetzner
     openstack
-    packet
     proxmoxve
     qemu
     scaleway

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/common-oem-files/files/packet/grub.cfg.frag

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-set linux_append="flatcar.autologin"
-
-if [ "$grub_cpu" = i386 ] || [ "$grub_cpu" = x86_64 ]; then
-    set gfxpayload="1024x768x8,1024x768"
-    set linux_console="console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8"
-fi

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-packet/metadata.xml

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-</pkgmetadata>

sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/oem-packet/oem-packet-0.2.2-r2.ebuild

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2020 Kinvolk GmbH. All rights reserved.
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-DESCRIPTION="Equinix Metal suite for Equinix Metal"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.equinix.com/"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
-IUSE=""
-
-SYSEXT_NAME="Equinix Metal"