Ok - take 3 This morning I dumped the hostvars variable to see what I could find. What I found was 2 hosts defined - a "default" host and a "packer-consulserver host". And lo and behold, in the default host were my groups and my group variables. These entries are not defined in the packer-consulserver host.
This is a problem because the ip address assigned to the default host is 127.0.0.1, and a container named default does not exist so any attempt to issue lxc commands fails. The packer-consulserver host reflects the name of the container and has a 10.125.175.188 ip address meaning that the lxd connector can make the connection. The only problem being is that host is missing my group vars and groups. Bottom line, if I don't add the -i packer-consulserver -l packer-consulserver parameters to my extra variables, ansible uses the default host and can't connect. If I do add the -i packer-consulserver -l packer-consulserver parameters to my extra variables then ansible uses packer-consulserver as the inventory host, but my group variables aren't visible. I apologize for the lengthy posts, but I've spent a number of hours on this, and hope that by recording my efforts I might save someone else the pain and suffering :-) And if someone has a solution, I'd love to hear it. -steve -- 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/7cf7d077-2397-49bf-b8d1-6d9b0d7afaf7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
