HCL2 conversion question

J Jones

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Apr 3, 2021, 9:41:29 AM4/3/21

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For the chef-client Provisioner , I currently use something like this for the json option:

"json": {

"test_a": {

"product_1":

{"version": "1.00.00"},

"product_2":

{"version": "1.01.00}

}

Everything that try when switching to HCL2 doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

Sylvia Moss

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Apr 3, 2021, 10:14:08 AM4/3/21

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For HCL2 templates you must use the json_string option. It will be like:
json_string = jsonencode({

"test_a" = {

"product_1" = {"version" = "1.00.00"}

"product_2" = {"version" ="1.01.00"}

}

})

Scott M

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Apr 5, 2021, 8:13:37 AM4/5/21

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While this looks like it would work for chef-solo, if I use it for chef-client, I get:

Unsupported argument; An argument named

"json_string" is not expected here.

Sylvia Moss

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Apr 6, 2021, 4:41:14 AM4/6/21

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You're right! Sorry, I didn't notice you weren't using the chef-solo. The same attribute must be implemented to chef-client too. Do you mind opening an issue for that?
https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues

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