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Sam
Asked: 2021-04-17 02:55:54 +0800 CST

Adding arguments to Packer's Ansible provisioner

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My Friday brain is really struggling to convert an Ansible command line into the format my Packer .json wants. The Ansible:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e @env/users/user01.yml --ask-vault --ask-become

My attempted Packer block:

  "provisioners": [
    {
      "ansible_env_vars": ["ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False"],
      "playbook_file": "{{ template_dir }}/../path/playbook.yml",
      "type": "ansible",
      "user": "{{ user `ssh_username` }}",
      "extra_arguments": ["--extra-vars", "@env", "../path/env/users/user01.yml", "desktop=false", "--vault-password-file", "../vaultpass"]
    }
  ],

I've tried various combinations of key=value (like the docs say) instead of separate "thing", blocks but then it looks like Ansible is trying to read everything as one big argument for --extra-vars (whereas at least --vault-password-file should be separate I think?).

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1 Answers

  1. OK "extra_arguments": ["--extra-vars", "@../path/env/users/user01.yml", "-e", "desktop=false", "--vault-password-file", "../vaultpass"] did the trick.

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