Seems that there is missing some alignment there. When you have done some research feel free to open a new issue either on Packer or Terraform to get them aligned.
On Jan 1, 2018 23:38, "Dave Woodward" <[email protected]> wrote: > In a nutshell, the Packer vsphere-template post processor is clearing the > UUID while the Terraform vsphere provider expects it to be populated. > > I am researching the possibility of using Packer in conjunction with > Terraform to automate infrastructure build-out on VMware ESXi 6.5. > Everything was working as expected until the Terraform vsphere provider > went 1.0. When this happened, the provider changed the way it was looking > up templates within vsphere. Initially it does a lookup by name, then all > subsequent lookups are done by the UUID returned from the first lookup. > This is where the template that I created with Packer comes into the > picture. When the vsphere-template post processor is used to unregister, > register, and mark the VM image created as a template it clears out the > UUID. Because of this, I cannot use a Packer-created vsphere template with > Terraform. As a test, I decided to forego the vsphere-template post > processor so I could go into the vsphere web client and convert the VM to a > template from there. When I did, the UUID of the VM was retained and > Terraform was able to use the template as expected. I am doing a little > digging into both the Packer and vmware projects on Github to see if I can > find out what commands are being used to perform these operations but this > is still a work in progress. In the meantime, I thought I would float my > situation by this group to see if anyone else is familiar with this issue. > > -- > 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/b956d25c-8c75-48e0-89b3-a046800c0522%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/b956d25c-8c75-48e0-89b3-a046800c0522%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/CALz9Rt9jYxU0CwPk%2B8-yXq_CAsEMSstsNtYUCkm22Kys33MTTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
