vagrant-cloud post-processor not working as expected

[Ashwin Balakrishnan]

Hello team,

I have been trying to set up an in-house repository for vagrant boxes. However, have comes across some issues.

I am using the packer's vagrant-cloud post-processor for uploading the box file to our Artifactory server hosted in house.

  "post-processors": [

    [

        {

          "type": "vagrant",

          "output": "ubuntu-16.box",

          "only": ["virtualbox"]

        },

        {

          "type": "vagrant-cloud",

          "vagrant_cloud_url": "http://xyz/artifactory/api/vagrant/packer-virtualboxes",

          "access_token": "champa",

          "version": "{{user `image_version`}}",

          "box_tag": "ubuntu16"

        }

    ]

The packer process fails with 404 for the following:

2019/11/01 16:59:09 packer: 2019/11/01 16:59:09 Post-Processor Vagrant Cloud API GET: http://xyz/artifactory/api/vagrant/packer-virtualboxes/box/ubuntu16?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN

The actual URL listed under "vagrant_cloud_url" in packer.json is "http://xyz/artifactory/api/vagrant/packer-virtualboxes".

However, when the packer build runs it tries to do a GET call on http://xyz/artifactory/api/vagrant/packer-virtualboxes/box/ubuntu16.

Not sure why *box* keyword is added after the actual url due to which the query fails.

I tried to do a curl call on http://xyz/artifactory/api/vagrant/packer-virtualboxes/ubuntu16 which works fine.

There is another problem with access_token.

The documentation says no need for access_token when *vagrant_cloud_url* is hosted in-house but the packer build fails complaining about access_token.

[Megan Marsh]

What version of Packer are you using? access_token was required for all runs, including in-house ones, until v1.4.4. so if you're using a verson of Packer older than that, it will complain. 

I can look into the box keyword issue if you open an issue on Packer's github repo :)

[Ashwin Balakrishnan]

Ahh okay, we are using an old version of packer i:e 1.1.1

That answers the access_token parameter problem.

For the *box* keyword, let me check once with the upgraded version of the packer.

If the issue persists will raise an issue :)

[Ashwin Balakrishnan]

After updating packer to 1.4.5, the issue with access_token has solved.

However, the box keyword issue still stays.
Raised an issue on Packer's GitHub repo --> https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/8327