Getting region from AWS profile

[John Mc Quillan]

Does anyone know how to get the region from the AWS profile and use it to set a user variable so that it can be passed through to provisioners.

[Rickard von Essen]

You can either do:

A) packer build -var region=$(aws configure --profile <profile> get region) template.json

Or (IMHO better)

B) Use the metadata on the instance, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4249488/find-region-from-within-an-ec2-instance

On 7 March 2018 at 18:07, John Mc Quillan <john.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know how to get the region from the AWS profile and use it to set a user variable so that it can be passed through to provisioners.

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