No you can't do that. As a workaround you can use the aws cli to check if the AMI exists, if so run packer build with -exclude=amazon-ebs
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 23:39 Khai Do <khai...@sagebase.org> wrote: > We are using packer with the amazon-ebs builder. The packer build command > throws an error when attempting to build an AMI with a name that matches an > existing AMI on AWS. I would like to make packer provide the same info but > NOT fail for this use case? Instead I would like it to just ignore and > continue to the next image build. Is there a way to tell packer to ignore > builds where an AMI already exists? something like an > '-skip-already-exist' flag? > > ➜ packer --version > 1.4.3 > ➜ packer build -var-file=../vars.json template.json > amazon-ebs output will be in this color. > > ==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name: weechat-v1.0.0 > ==> amazon-ebs: Error: AMI Name: 'weechat-v1.0.0' is used by an existing > AMI: ami-0ee682a1a7e3717d0 > Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Error: AMI Name: 'weechat-v1.0.0' is used by > an existing AMI: ami-0ee682a1a7e3717d0 > > ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: > --> amazon-ebs: Error: AMI Name: 'weechat-v1.0.0' is used by an existing > AMI: ami-0ee682a1a7e3717d0 > > ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created. > ➜ echo $? > 1 > > > -- > 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 packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/50f8f68f-aca8-43a0-9e20-7e050475a6d3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/50f8f68f-aca8-43a0-9e20-7e050475a6d3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt_z6oQcw4r3O%2Bid_2%2BG7V%2BhozTnRkZqUrcGhdBHpXo%3DEA%40mail.gmail.com.
