user variable

[t3e...@gmail.com]

can anyone advise if you are able to use ami_description as a user variable, 

e.g. 

"variables": {

    "AMIName": "{{`AMIName`}}",

    "ami_description": "{{`AMIDescription`}}",

  },

and then pass 

packer build \ -var 'AMIName=Test' \ -var 'ami_description=testdescription' \ template.json

[Rickard von Essen]

Yes it works, but your example is a bit wrong. It should be like this:

{

  "variables": {

     "ami_name": "Default name",

     "ami_description": "Default description"

  },

  "builders": [{

     ...

     "ami_name": "{{ user `ami_name` }},

     "ami_description": "{{ user `ami_description` }},

     ...

  }]

}

And then:

packer build -var ami_name=Test -var ami_description=testdescription template.json

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[t3e...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the correction

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