Thanks for the correction
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:14:11 PM UTC+1, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> Yes it works, but your example is a bit wrong. It should be like this:
>
> {
> "variables": {
> "ami_name": "Default name",
> "ami_description": "Default description"
> },
> "builders": [{
> ...
> "ami_name": "{{ user `ami_name` }},
> "ami_description": "{{ user `ami_description` }},
> ...
> }]
> }
>
> And then:
>
> packer build -var ami_name=Test -var ami_description=testdescription
> template.json
>
> On 17 May 2018 at 13:03, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> can anyone advise if you are able to use ami_description as a user
>> variable,
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> "variables": {
>> "AMIName": "{{`AMIName`}}",
>> "ami_description": "{{`AMIDescription`}}",
>> },
>>
>>
>> and then pass
>>
>> packer build \ -var 'AMIName=Test' \ -var
>> 'ami_description=testdescription' \ template.json
>>
>>
>>
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