This happened to me and it was because for a var-file you don't need the
"variables": {...
just open and close { }...
so {
"var1": "value"
}
On Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 12:48:18 AM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> I don't that will work, it will split on all commas.
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 23:49 Todd Foley <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> what happens when you have a nested comma?
>> example:
>>
>> {
>> "variables": {
>> "changes": "CMD [\"/bar\"],ENTRYPOINT [\"/foo\",\"--\"]"
>> },
>>
>> "builders": [
>> {
>> "type": "docker",
>> "image": "ubuntu:16.04",
>> "run_command": ["-d", "{{.Image}}"],
>> "changes": "{{ user `changes`}}",
>> "commit": true
>> }
>> ],
>> "post-processors": [
>> [
>> {
>> "type": "docker-tag",
>> "repository": "my/ubuntu",
>> "tag": "16.04"
>> }
>> ]
>> ]
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 4:02:55 AM UTC-7, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>>>
>>> Variables should always be strings. Array type options which gets a
>>> variable splits them on comma. You variables.json should be:
>>>
>>> {
>>> "ami_users" : "1111111111111,222222222222,333333333333",
>>> "ami_regions": "us-east-1,eu-west-1"
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> And in your packer template you use them like this:
>>>
>>> {
>>> "variables": {
>>> "ami_users": null,
>>> "ami_regions": null
>>> },
>>> "builders": [
>>> {
>>> "type": "amazon-ebs",
>>> "ami_users": "{{ user `ami_users` }}"
>>> }
>>> ]
>>>
>>> See
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.packer.io/docs/templates/user-variables.html#using-array-values
>>>
>>> On 14 April 2018 at 02:39, Bad Santa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also have this issue. Were you able to resolve it?
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:31:35 AM UTC-8, Sandeep Sharma wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have three aws accounts so trying to use variable file for AMI
>>>>> permission.
>>>>>
>>>>> variables.json
>>>>>
>>>>> {
>>>>> "ami_users" : ["1111111111111", "222222222222", "333333333333"],
>>>>> "ami_regions": ["us-east-1", "eu-west-1"]
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> ]# packer build -var-file=variables.json /tmp/test.json
>>>>> invalid value "variables.json" for flag -var-file: Error reading
>>>>> variables in 'variables.json': json: cannot unmarshal array into Go value
>>>>> of type string
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Sandeep Sharma
>>>>>
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