Drop the outer { and "variables":.
See https://packer.io/docs/templates/user-variables.html#from-a-file
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 22:59 Arun kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been using packer for ami builds recently. when I used the
> variables inside the template, template works fine but when I provide the
> variables using -var-file=variables.json, it throws me below mentioned
> error.
>
> *"Error reading variables in 'vars.json': json: cannot unmarshal object
> into Go value of type string"*
>
> I looked for a thread to find out the solution, but haven't had luck
> finding it. Most of the threads are incomplete...
> Can someone please shed some light why is this happening. Below is my
> variables file.
>
> {
> "variables":
> {
> "aws_access_key": "{{env `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`}}",
> "aws_secret_key": "{{env `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`}}",
> "aws_session_token" : "{{env `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN`}}",
> "region": "us-east-1",
> "iam_role": "packer-role",
> "vpc_id": "vpc-xxxxxxx",
> "subnet_id": "subnet-xxxxxxxx",
> "security_group_id": "sg-xxxxxxxxx",
> "created_ami_name": "xxxxxxxx-{{env `date +%Y-%m-%d`}}",
> "kms_key_id": "ami-kms-key",
> "instance_type": "t2.micro",
> "Environment": "dev",
> "source_ami_name": "testami",
> "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
> "script": "setup.sh",
> "owners": ["987654321"]
> }
> }
>
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