My undersrtanding is local doesn't require ansible to be installed on the host where packer is running.
Alvaro On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Matzuba <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey > > sorry if this has been asked but i didn't see much in the history to aid > me. > > I'm having trouble understanding what really is the difference between > ansible-remote and ansible-local as provisioners to build an AMI within AWS. > > We typically use ansible in its standard setup with SSH on our other > projects for general CM/ad-hoc tasks run. I understand that ansible-local > will copy the playbook to the remote node/ami instance i am building and > run. I understand that ansible-remote will do the same/similar over SSH but > i am not getting why i would choose one method over the other? > > What are the pro/cons with either approach and why would i choose one over > the other? As i wish to use playbooks using our standard config management > and not just when building an AMI, i was thinking remote was the way to go > but a lot seem to be using ansible-local which i have just tested and works > fine. I understand there maybe slight differences to the playbooks written > for each method and would prefer to stick with one method for both > workloads. > > Cheers > > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/a03590d4-09dc-48df-961c-e8208cbb263f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/a03590d4-09dc-48df-961c-e8208cbb263f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alvaro -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAHqq0ex0XYv9m_vwxy71VP9UieiKyA6ohfSYbk4%2BCK1jE3YaXg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
