1. No 2. No. To do something like that you have to wrap your script in another script that will execute appropriate cleanup tasks*). This only works in a shell provisioner. If you rely on another provisioner you might manipulate the execute_command to write down the exit code to a file and ignore expected exit codes. And then run a script that do appropriate cleanup and reuse the exit code from the previous provisioner.
*) http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-guide.html#TRAPREF1 On 12 June 2017 at 17:21, Vamshi krishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. Is it possible to store the output of an inline shell command in a > packer variable? I have looked into docs and have not found a proper > example of doing it. > 2. Is it possible to run shell provisioner even if other provisioners > fails to execute or throw an exit code 1 ? > > one of my provisioner runs chef-client and if it succeeds I won't have any > problems but if it fails the packer exit's with code 1. my subsequent > provisioners are `deleting the node and client` from the chef server. I > want these commands to be executed even if the first provisioner fails. > > -- > 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/41c7834d-6f30-4cf1-a6eb-a33335e99b34%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/41c7834d-6f30-4cf1-a6eb-a33335e99b34%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALz9Rt9BJ%2BkRmgOf2DBrhCeeZjAXok2M8%3D052kwVi_F_%3D6t0Hg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
