Ugh, didn't have the most recent. Amateur hour over here. Thanks for the 
quick reply!

On Monday, July 10, 2017 at 4:24:42 PM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> Which version of Packer? 
>
> On Jul 10, 2017 22:07, "Andrew Doyle" <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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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