Run python script in shell-local

[Ibrahim Buamod]

run python script in shell-local

"provisioners": [

    {

      "type": "shell-local",

      "environment_vars": ["VM_NAME={{user `Name`}}"],

      "execute_command": ["bash", "-c", "{{.Vars}} {{.Script}}"],

      "script": "./abc.py"

    }

[Rickard von Essen]

Is that a question? 

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[Ibrahim Buamod]

Yes .. sorry for the poor presentation 

[Ibrahim Buamod]

It is a question ? how can I run a python script locally 

[Rickard von Essen]

That should work, assuming your python script is executable and have a proper shebang.

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[Megan Marsh]

You can also use python in your execute_command; the example below works on my mac; python is in my path and the script "hello.py" is in my working directory

{

    "builders": [

      {

        "type":         "null",

        "communicator": "none"

      }

    ],

    "provisioners": [

      {

          "type": "shell-local",

          "script": "hello.py",

          "execute_command": ["python", "{{.Script}}"]

      }

    ]

}

Here's the command and output from the above example: 

$ packer build shell_local_python.json

null output will be in this color.

==> null: Running local shell script: hello.py

    null: Hello, world!

Build 'null' finished.

==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:

--> null: Did not export anything. This is the null builder

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[Megan Marsh]

I think this is a pretty useful question so I've made a PR adding docs for how to do this (including env vars!) here: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/7181/files

[Ibrahim Buamod]

So would this be my first contribution to packer :D

[Megan Marsh]

:D