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shell-local local.

On Jan 26, 2018 23:09, "Gabo Kete" <[email protected]> wrote:

> what I suggest you can do within your wrapper script is to have 2
> arguments defined
>
> 1) The Builder type
> 2) An Extra argument added to the VM name based on the builder chosen by
> the user who executes the wrapper script
>
> Something like
>
> * "nameVm": "`echo $_HN`-`echo $_BUILDTYPE`" *
>
> so the final outcome will be a text like
>
> ServerName1-AWS
> ServerName1-VMWare
> ServerName1-Azure
>
> I guess this goes as far as the imagination and the scripts skills can
> go..
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 11:04:08 AM UTC+13, Gabo Kete wrote:
>>
>> What I did is create a wrapper script that takes the name as an argument
>> and then I create dynamically the JSON file passing this variable to the
>> JSON file as a user Variable..
>>
>> Something like
>>
>> This is my usage Function from the wrapper script
>>
>> usage() {
>>   echo -e "
>> Usage: $(basename $0) -i <IP ADDRESS> -n <SERVER NETMASK> -g <SERVER
>> GATEWAY> *-s <SERVER HOSTNAME>* [ -d|-h|-v|-t <SERVER TYPE|-f <BULK
>> SERVER LIST> ]
>>
>> and This is where I dynamically create the JSON file
>>
>> *create_json_template () {*
>>
>> cat > $_JSONFILE << __EOF
>> {
>>   "_comment": "This si a centos7-x64 Machine for VmWare ESXi 6.0",
>>   "variables": {
>> *    "nameVm": "`echo $_HN`-centos-7.1-vmware",*
>>
>>
>> Here is where I define the variable name from the options passed to the
>> script
>>
>> if [[ $# != 0 ]];then
>>
>>
>> while getopts ":i:n:g:s:t:f:dvh" Option
>> do
>>   case $Option in
>> i   ) _IP=$OPTARG;;
>> n   ) _NM=$OPTARG;;
>>       g   ) _GW=$OPTARG;;
>> *      s   ) _HN=$OPTARG;;*
>>
>> On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 10:49:48 AM UTC+13, Andreas Sommer wrote:
>>>
>>> That is for shell. For shell-local, those environment variables are
>>> undefined.
>>>
>>> On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 6:06:25 PM UTC+1, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> See https://www.packer.io/docs/provisioners/shell.html#defau
>>>> lt-environmental-variables
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 26, 2018 17:57, "'Andreas Sommer' via Packer" <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> {
>>>>>> "type": "shell-local",
>>>>>> "command": "env vm_name={{user `vm_name`}}
>>>>>> ./packer/scripts/do-something-with-name.sh",
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This won't work because it's not a user variable. Since I have several
>>>>> builders (different hypervisors to choose from), the name might differ
>>>>> between them. Is it possible somehow to pass the builder-specific vm_name
>>>>> value to a provisioner?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Andreas
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