> How do I get the IP? Curl the metadata service on AWS, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html#instancedata-data-retrieval
A example that used to work at least. Haven't tried it lately. https://github.com/Diabol/packer-demo/blob/master/windows-cloud-ansible.json > 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. This is fairly well described in the docs: https://packer.io/docs/provisioners/ansible.html#winrm-communicator Maybe you can show what you have and what issue you are seeing. On Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 00:48 Angel Rengifo Cancino <arengi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAA3McK95gj%3D73d_grifK-GLCG8suhcVVQ9Pz5%3D0Kevj9-1ahmA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAA3McK95gj%3D73d_grifK-GLCG8suhcVVQ9Pz5%3D0Kevj9-1ahmA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt8i%3Da8jSDTNzj3LLC6-8BD6hN8eaD-6D7dGjppxOB9wRA%40mail.gmail.com.
