Hi, I gave up after a few tries on synchronizing the whole folder and created gzip of it and copied it using ansible copy module and extracted on remote machine at desired location.
Regards, Nirav On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 11:50:13 UTC+5:30, Matzuba wrote: > > Hi there > > Did you get this working at all? > > I am trying to figure how to get packer to work with ansible roles i have > created. I dont want to use one playbook file. > > cheers > > > On Friday, 15 July 2016 02:05:13 UTC+8, Nirav Radia wrote: >> >> My use-case is to run a playbook which installs Oracle JDK, GIT etc and >> "synchronize" a folder (say /home/ubuntu/abc) lying on my >> ansible-controller with ansible-host (at /tmp/abc). >> >> >> Reading the documentation of ansible-remote >> <https://www.packer.io/docs/provisioners/ansible.html>, I thought using >> ansible provisioner would be good. But when I did that, to my surprise, the >> playbook was synchronizing the folder from /home/ubuntu/abc with /tmp/abc >> on the SAME MACHINE where I am running packer. >> >> >> Is it possible that I can use machine running PACKER as ansible >> controller and use machine provisioned by packer as host? >> >> >> Here is my packer.json: >> { >> >> >> >> "builders": [ >> >> { >> >> "type": "amazon-ebs", >> >> "access_key": "<<my_key_id>>", >> >> "secret_key": "<<my_secret_key>>", >> >> "ami_name": "CentOS 7 AMI by packer - {{timestamp}}", >> >> "ami_description": "AMI created using packer", >> >> "region": "us-west-2", >> >> "source_ami": "ami-d2c924b2", >> >> "instance_type": "t2.micro", >> >> "ssh_username": "centos", >> >> "user_data_file": "disable_tty.sh", >> >> "ami_name": "packer-example-{{timestamp}}", >> >> "tags": { >> >> "Name": "web-nginx" >> >> } >> >> } >> >> ], >> >> "provisioners": [ >> >> { >> >> "type": "ansible", >> >> "playbook_file": "ansible/install-binaries.yml", >> >> "user": "centos", >> >> "extra_arguments": ["-vvvv"], >> >> "sftp_command": "/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server" >> >> } >> >> ] >> >> } >> >> >> install-binaries.yml >> >> >> --- >> >> >> >> - name: Install JAVA 1.8 if needed >> >> hosts: all >> >> become: true >> >> roles: >> >> - williamyeh.oracle-java >> >> >> >> >> - name: Install git >> >> hosts: all >> >> become: true >> >> roles: >> >> - davidkarban.git >> >> >> >> - name: Install rsync >> >> hosts: all >> >> become: true >> >> roles: >> >> - kbrebanov.rsync >> >> >> >> >> - name: Copy my directory >> >> hosts: all >> >> become: true >> >> roles: >> >> >> - ABC.myrole >> >> >> >> >> tasks/main.yml of role ABC.myrole >> >> >> --- >> >> >> - name: Remove installation if exists >> >> file: path="{{deploy_dir}}" state="absent" >> >> >> >> >> - name: Synchronize installation >> >> synchronize: src="{{src_dir}}/" dest="{{deploy_dir}}" >> >> >> >> >> - name: Make shell scripts executable >> >> shell: "find ./ -name '*.sh' -exec chmod +x {} \\;" >> >> args: >> >> chdir: "{{deploy_dir}}" >> >> >> >> disable_tty.sh >> >> #!/bin/bash >> sed -i '/Defaults \+requiretty/s/^/#/' /etc/sudoers >> >> >> >> The variable values are: >> >> deploy_dir: "/tmp/myDirectory" >> >> src_dir: ".~/ansible/myDirectory" >> >> >> Directory structure: >> >> /home/ubuntu/ >> >> -- packer.json >> >> -- disable_tty.sh (Need this for "become: true" in playbook on CentOS 7 >> image which I am using) >> >> -- ansible >> >> -- roles (all the roles are inside this) >> >> -- install-binaries.yml >> >> -- myDirectory >> >> The task "Synchronize installation" takes too long (waited till 15 >> minutes and then stopped it !!!) and meanwhile, I observed there is >> myDirectory created in /tmp of the PACKER HOST (of course I can't check on >> host which PACKER is providing the temp instance it is in creation state) >> The size of myDirectory is more than 550 MB and it contains a LOT of >> little files and binaries. >> >> Machine I am running packer is Ubuntu 14.04 >> Source AMI is Centos 7 from its official website. >> >> -- 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/433ff7da-2bad-45d1-8bd0-299cad52f96a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
