Specify/Obtain Hostname?

[mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com]

I am wanting to run some serverspec tests against my vagrant box but i'm not really sure how to get the virtualmachines hostname from packer or how to configure a hostname.  Anyone know if this i possible?

[Rickard von Essen]

I'm not sure why you need the hostname?

But if you need to get that to the machine running Packer you can do something like:

"provisioners": [

  {

    "type": "shell",

    "inline": [ "hostname > /tmp/hostname" ]

  },

  {

    "type": "file",

    "direction": "download",

    "source": "/tmp/hostname",

    "destination": "hostname"

  }

]

And you will get the hostname in the file "hostname".

On 2 June 2017 at 14:25, <mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com> wrote:

I am wanting to run some serverspec tests against my vagrant box but i'm not really sure how to get the virtualmachines hostname from packer or how to configure a hostname.  Anyone know if this i possible?

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[mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com]

Thanks i Will give this a shot.  The reason i want it is my build agent is building the packer image.  Afterwards i want to use serverspec to winrm and run some verfication tests against the box.  In order to do this i must specify the hostname of the box

On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 7:41:11 AM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen wrote:

I'm not sure why you need the hostname?

But if you need to get that to the machine running Packer you can do something like:

"provisioners": [

  {

    "type": "shell",

    "inline": [ "hostname > /tmp/hostname" ]

  },

  {

    "type": "file",

    "direction": "download",

    "source": "/tmp/hostname",

    "destination": "hostname"

  }

]

And you will get the hostname in the file "hostname".

On 2 June 2017 at 14:25, <mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com> wrote:

I am wanting to run some serverspec tests against my vagrant box but i'm not really sure how to get the virtualmachines hostname from packer or how to configure a hostname.  Anyone know if this i possible?

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[mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com]

Unfortunately i'm using winrm and it doesn't support downloading of files

On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 7:41:11 AM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen wrote:

I'm not sure why you need the hostname?

But if you need to get that to the machine running Packer you can do something like:

"provisioners": [

  {

    "type": "shell",

    "inline": [ "hostname > /tmp/hostname" ]

  },

  {

    "type": "file",

    "direction": "download",

    "source": "/tmp/hostname",

    "destination": "hostname"

  }

]

And you will get the hostname in the file "hostname".

On 2 June 2017 at 14:25, <mich...@globalcustomcommerce.com> wrote:

I am wanting to run some serverspec tests against my vagrant box but i'm not really sure how to get the virtualmachines hostname from packer or how to configure a hostname.  Anyone know if this i possible?

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[Rickard von Essen]

Ok, then you will be happy when the next release comes out. https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/4748

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