Try to remove the inventory_file option
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 07:20 Kevin Galkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi #packer!
>
> I am trying to learn more about Packer and Ansible. I think those too
> along with Terraform, Bazel and jsonnet will be great to use!
>
> With packer I am able to pass in a playbook.yml and an inventory file to
> Ansible. However, I would like to be able to specify to ansible what host
> it is currently running on, so it knows what section of the inventory file
> to utilize.
>
> I tried the `host_alias` parameter, but I then ended up with:
>
> amazon-ebs: fatal: [master_host]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false,
> "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ssh: Could not resolve
> hostname master_host: nodename nor servname provided, or not known",
> "unreachable": true}
>
> Any ideas on what is the best way to tell Ansible what machine it is
> provisioning through Packer?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kevin
>
> [provision.yml file:::]
> ---
>
> - hosts: all
>
> vars:
> kubernetes_allow_pods_on_master: true
>
> roles:
> - geerlingguy.docker
> - geerlingguy.kubernetes
>
> [inventory_master file:::]
> [master]
> master_host
>
> [master:vars]
> kubernetes_role=master
>
> [node]
> node_host1
> node_host2
>
> [node:vars]
> kubernetes_role=node
>
> [example.json file:::]
> {
> "variables": {
> "aws_access_key": "",
> "aws_secret_key": ""
> },
> "builders": [{
> "type": "amazon-ebs",
> "access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",
> "secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",
> "region": "us-east-1",
> "source_ami_filter": {
> "filters": {
> "virtualization-type": "hvm",
> "name": "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*",
> "root-device-type": "ebs"
> },
> "owners": ["099720109477"],
> "most_recent": true
> },
> "instance_type": "t2.micro",
> "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
> "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}"
> }],
> "provisioners": [{
> "type": "ansible",
> "user": "root",
> "playbook_file": "/Users/kevin/pdev/tgkj/corp/dev/provision.yml",
> "inventory_file":
> "/Users/kevin/pdev/tgkj/corp/dev/inventory_master.yml",
> "host_alias": "master_host"
> }, {
> "type": "shell",
> "inline": [
> "echo Thanks to https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/
> and make sure to use jsonnet to properly share the configuration."
> ]
> }
> ]
> }
>
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