Which version of Packer?
On Jul 10, 2017 22:07, "Andrew Doyle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a little confused as to how the packer_build_name extra variable is
> supposed to be used for Ansible Remote. According to the documentation, "the
> provisioner automatically defines certain commonly useful Ansible
> variables", one of them being "packer_build_name".
>
> The way that reads, it makes me think that the variable should be
> available for Ansible, but I am getting this error "'packer_build_name'
> is undefined" during the Ansible run.
>
> How are these automatic extra variables supposed to be utilized?
>
> The Ansible play:
>
> - name: Set build stage variable
> set_fact: "build_stage={{ item }}"
> with_items: "{{ packer_build_name.split('-')[-1] }}"
>
> In Packer:
>
> {
> "type": "ansible",
> "user": "ubuntu",
> "playbook_file": "ansible/site.yml",
> "extra_arguments" : [
> "-vvv"
> ]
> }
>
> and...
>
> "builders": [
> {
> "name": "py-cicd-test",
> "type": "amazon-ebs",
> .....
>
> Where I'm trying to split the "test" portion off so I can dynamically
> include different vars files.
>
> Can anyone point me towards what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks, Andrew
>
>
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