Ok so it's actually the "user-data" I'm thinking of. So if i need it to run 
before I run my ansible playbook via the provisioner, that's not going to 
fly.

On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 7:22:57 AM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> User data 1) is used by cloud-init 2). Cloud init is a service that 
> executes early in the boot process and reads user-data (among other things) 
> and can modify the VM's setup. It can add users and ssh-keys to allow 
> connection via ssh. But it's not guaranteed to finish before sshd starts, 
> so there is no strict order.
>
> I sugest that you read the references, Google and get back if you get any 
> more specific follow up questions. 
>
> // Rickard
>
> 1) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html
>
> 2) http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>
> On 22 May 2018 at 07:00, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> So I have a bash script that installs a few things before my 
>> ansible-local run within the provisioner block. My intial draft I had a 
>> shell provisioner that would run my bash script. It works fine and ansible 
>> runs fine. I learned about user_data_file and decided to move this initial 
>> shell script out of the provisioner and set it as a user_data_file. It 
>> doesn't seem to work because I have it installing ansible on the image 
>> Packer is building in order to run the ansible-local provisioner.
>>
>> Does user_data_file run at the end before it snapshots the image or does 
>> it run BEFORE the provisioner starts?
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