ansible-remote provisioner not recognizing packer_build_name variable

[Andrew Doyle]

Hello,

I'm a little confused as to how the packer_build_name extra variable is supposed to be used for Ansible Remote.  According to the documentation, "the provisioner automatically defines certain commonly useful Ansible variables", one of them being "packer_build_name".

The way that reads, it makes me think that the variable should be available for Ansible, but I am getting this error "'packer_build_name' is undefined" during the Ansible run.

How are these automatic extra variables supposed to be utilized?

The Ansible play:

- name: Set build stage variable
  set_fact: "build_stage={{ item }}"
  with_items: "{{ packer_build_name.split('-')[-1] }}"

In Packer:

{

  "type": "ansible",

  "user": "ubuntu",

  "playbook_file": "ansible/site.yml",

  "extra_arguments" : [

      "-vvv"

  ]

}

and...

"builders": [

    {

      "name": "py-cicd-test",

      "type": "amazon-ebs",
      .....

Where I'm trying to split the "test" portion off so I can dynamically include different vars files.

Can anyone point me towards what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks, Andrew

[Rickard von Essen]

Which version of Packer? 

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[Andrew Doyle]

Ugh, didn't have the most recent. Amateur hour over here. Thanks for the quick reply!

Which version of Packer? 

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