Failed to initialize build 'amazon-ebs': builder type not found:

[Sabitha M]

Hi ,

Here is my packer template. I am trying to pass command line arguments for packer build of type cloud. But I am getting error

Failed to initialize build '': builder type not found: {{user `cloud_provider`}}
Failed to initialize build 'amazon-ebs': builder type not found: {{user `cloud_provider`}}
 [1;32mamazon-ebs output will be in this color. [0m


==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

{

  "variables": {

    "cloud_provider": "",

    "image_id": ""

  },

  "builders": [{

    "type": "{{user `cloud_provider`}}",

    "region": "us-west-2",

    "source_ami": "{{user `image_id`}}",

    "instance_type": "t2.micro",

    "vpc_id":"xxxx-80d4",

    "ssh_username": "ec2-user",

    "subnet_id": "xxxx-4d",

    "security_group_id": "xxx-14f5",

    "ami_name": "JENKINS_PACKER_{{timestamp}}",

    "tags": {

    "Key": "Name",

    "Value": "JENKINS_PACKER_{{timestamp}}"

    }

  }],

 "provisioners": [

  {

  "type": "shell",

  "inline": [

    "sleep 10",

    "sudo yum -y update",

    "sudo yum -y install java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64",

    "curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py",

    "sudo python get-pip.py",

    "sudo pip install --upgrade awscli"

  ]

  }

  ]

[Rickard von Essen]

You can't interpolate type and it wouldn't help much since they generally will have different options. If you really want to template type you can preprocess your template (with sed etc.).

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