Trying to Using Ansible with Packer

[wick asana]

Hi Everyone !

I'm actually trying to use Ansible with packer to configure a VM. 

Let me explain my Packer config: 

- Packer create the VM on VMware ESXI 

- After that, i use a kickstart file to partition my disk

- And, I want to use a Ansible config file to install and configure my server

But i don't know how can i retrieve the Dynamic IP to assign Ansible config file.

Can you help me ?

Sorry for my bad English

Thanks in advance

Belliard Romain

[Rickard von Essen]

Use the ansible provisioner *) . It will automatically handle the connectivity. If you have any problems with it pleas supply your template, Kickstart file, and playbooks.

*) https://packer.io/docs/provisioners/ansible.html

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[wick asana]

Thx for your help it's works !!!

Now i have an other question ....

After the VM creation i want to extract and compress this one...

But during the Packer exctraction it says me that :

2018/10/29 08:46:50 cracklib-packer: 2018/10/29 08:46:50 [DEBUG] starting remote command: vim-cmd vmsvc/reload 165

==> vmware-iso: Exporting virtual machine...

    vmware-iso: Executing: ovftool  --shaAlgorithm=sha256  --allowExtraConfig --noSSLVerify=true --skipManifestCheck -tt=ova vi://root:****@x.x.x.x/vm_name output-vmware-iso

==> vmware-iso: Error exporting virtual machine: exit status 1

2018/10/29 08:46:51 ui error: ==> vmware-iso: Error exporting virtual machine: exit status 1

==> vmware-iso: Error: Unexpected option: --noSSLVerify=true

==> vmware-iso: Completed with errors

How can i resolve this error ?

thanks in advance !!

[Rickard von Essen]

What's your version of ovftool?

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[wick asana]

it's ovftools 4.3 

[Rickard von Essen]

There is a issue for this, see https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5886#issuecomment-366085489

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 2:31 PM wick asana <wick...@gmail.com> wrote:

it's ovftools 4.3 

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