Hello Rickard, thanks for your reply

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:33 AM Rickard von Essen <
rickard.von.es...@gmail.com> wrote:

> To get the IP for running ansible in shell-local do:
>
> A) Run a shell provisioner that saves the IP in a file. Use a file
> provisioner to download it and read it in the shell-local script.
>
 How do I get the IP? I'm not aware of any packer variable or setting that
contains such value in a similar way as {{.WinRMPassword}} for password.

Or B) use some aws tag specific to this build and run the aws cli to find
> the IP of that instance.
>
That could be an option if option A does not work as expected.

>
> I would expect Ansible 2.8 with WinRM support in Packer to be at best
> rocky. But if you are into troubleshooting things it's probably worth at
> least trying.
>
Ansible 2.8 does work pretty well with WinRM. However, the special "packer"
connection used by ansible provisioner it requires a plugin, as far as I
know, but that's where I get confused.

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