The value you put in the variables block is just a default, you can pass a
value for the variable when you run the packer build. You can pass values
on the command line with the var flag or put them in a file and refer to
the file with the var-file flag on the command line.
Then in your template code you use the variable values with the user
function {{user `varable`}}, so the line in your template code would be
"Start-Process -FilePath \"C:\\atmp\\vs_enterprise.exe\" -ArgumentList
\"--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure --productKey {{user
`key_info`}} --quiet\" -NoNewWindow -Wait"
This is all explained in the documentation here:
https://www.packer.io/docs/templates/user-variables.html
On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 2:39:06 PM UTC-6, Christopher Campbell wrote:
>
> Hi all, wanted to see if there is an easy way to use variables in
> powershell provisioner.
>
> currently i have variable declared as the following and want to replace
> the [[key]] to be the variable but i am unable to find any examples on how
> to do this.
>
> "variables":{
> "key_info": "1234567890"
> }
>
>
> "type": "powershell",
> "inline": [
>
> "Start-Process -FilePath \"C:\\atmp\\vs_enterprise.exe\"
> -ArgumentList \"--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure --productKey
> [[key]] --quiet\" -NoNewWindow -Wait"
>
>
> ]
> },
>
>
>
>
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