Thanks, that did the trick.
On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 11:27:14 AM UTC-5, Alvaro Miranda
Aguilera wrote:
>
> hello
>
> not sure what is your host os, but in bash for linux/osx the single quote
> will avoid the variable expansion
>
> try
> packer build -var "do_api_token=${DO_API_TOKEN}" example.json
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Michael Beigelmacher <
> [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I’m going the tutorial on Packer here about parallel builds
>> <https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/parallel-builds.html> and
>> the build for a DigitalOcean image fails. First, packer validate
>> example.json fails with:
>>
>> Template validation failed. Errors are shown below.
>>
>> Errors validating build 'digitalocean'. 1 error(s) occurred:
>>
>> * api_token for auth must be specified
>>
>> Which I worked around by running packer validate -var
>> 'do_api_token=$DO_API_TOKEN' example.json which passed. More
>> importantly, when I run packer build -var 'do_api_token=$DO_API_TOKEN'
>> example.json I get the following error for DigitalOcean
>>
>> --> digitalocean: Error creating temporary SSH key: POST
>> https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/account/keys: 401 Unable to authenticate you.
>>
>> I know my DO_API_TOKEN environment variable is correct as it works with
>> other tools (Ansible) without a problem.
>>
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