Packer VM name with timestamp

[Shyam J]

Hello,

Looking for any option to add timestamp to the vm_name getting created. Sometime jenkins will create more VM back to back and errors out because VM with same name exists. So manually deleting VM's is a pain. So is there is an option to add timestamp or unique names? 

I am using vmware-iso builder.

Thanks

Shyam

[Rickard von Essen]

Check the isotime function https://packer.io/docs/templates/engine.html

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[Matthias Teege]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:56:07PM -0800, Shyam J wrote:

Hi,

> Looking for any option to add timestamp to the vm_name getting created.

"managed_image_name": "imagename-{{timestamp}}",

> Sometime jenkins will create more VM back to back and errors out because VM
> with same name exists. So manually deleting VM's is a pain. So is there is

You can force packer to overwrite the old image with "packer build -force"

Matthias

[Shyam J]

Thank you. "managed_image_name" is for azure and im using vmware-iso. But I think the force option is going to help me