Using packer to copy files needed for build

[Ralphael Johnson]

I have a file on a remote server that I am trying to have copied over during the build process. Its failing to copy the file but it is connecting successfully. Is anyone using scp inside a script to copy a file from a remote server during the packer build?

[Gautam Singh]

Why not use file provisioner instead.

https://packer.io/docs/provisioners/file.html

Thanks

Gautam

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, 2:45 PM Ralphael Johnson <playbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a file on a remote server that I am trying to have copied over during the build process. Its failing to copy the file but it is connecting successfully.  Is anyone using scp inside a script to copy a file from a remote server during the packer build?

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[Rickard von Essen]

Scp works as normal from an instance. There is nothing special regarding that when running packer. Build with --on-error=ask, when it fails log into the instance end debug manually before destroying it.

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[Ralphael Johnson]

File provisioner won't do what I need it to do because as far as I know the files have to be local. The file in question is on a remote system. Can the file provisioner move remote files as well??

[Ralphael Johnson]

I'll try this and see what happens, thx 👍

[John Roh]

I was able to copy from centos7 container image to the remote instance (ec2 windows) fine. 

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 5:44 AM Ralphael Johnson <playbo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll try this and see what happens, thx 👍

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