packer/website/content/partials/plugins/plugin-tiers-and-namespaces.mdx

## Tiers and Namespaces

Packer plugins are published and maintained by a variety of sources, including
HashiCorp, and the Packer community. This website uses tiers and badges to
denote the source of a provider. Additionally, namespaces are used to help users
identify the organization or publisher responsible for the integration, as shown
in the table below.

| Tier                             | Description                                                                                                                   | Namespace                                                   |
| -------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| <PluginBadge type="official" />  | Official plugins are owned and maintained by HashiCorp.                                                                       | hashicorp                                                   |
| <PluginBadge type="community" /> | Community providers are published by individual maintainers, groups of maintainers, or other members of the Packer community. | Third-party organization or maintainer's individual account |


<PluginBadge type="hcp_packer_ready" /> is present when a Packer builder using
this plugin and version will be able to communicate build statuses with HCP
Packer.