Deprecated

This repository does not receive active maintenance or improvements; its feature set was integrated into Packer and released in v0.9.0 as one of the officially supported provisioners.

packer-provisioner-ansible

packer-provisioner-ansible is a Packer plugin that provisions machines using Ansible.

Limitations

packer-provsioner-ansible does not support SCP to transfer files.

Install

Download and install Packer: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer#quick-start

go get -d github.com/bhcleek/packer-provisioner-ansible
go build -o /usr/local/bin/packer-provisioner-ansible ./plugin/provisioner-ansible

Getting Started

This is a fully functional template that will provision an image on DigitalOcean. Replace the mock api_token value with your own.

{
	"provisioners": [
		{
			"type": "ansible",
			"playbook_file": "./playbook.yml",
			"extra_arguments": ["--private-key", "./id_packer-ansible", "-v", "-c", "paramiko"],
			"ssh_authorized_key_file": "./id_packer-ansible.pub",
			"ssh_host_key_file": "./packer_host_private_key"
		}
	],

	"builders": [
		{
			"type": "digitalocean",
			"api_token": "6a561151587389c7cf8faa2d83e94150a4202da0e2bad34dd2bf236018ffaeeb",
			"image": "ubuntu-14-04-x64",
			"region": "sfo1"
		},
	]
}

Configuration Reference

required parameters

• playbook_file - The playbook file to be run by Ansible.
• ssh_host_key_file - The SSH key that will be used to run the SSH server to which Ansible connects.
• ssh_authorized_key_file - The SSH public key of the Ansible ssh_user.

optional parameters

• local_port (string) - The port on which ansible-provisioner should first attempt to listen for SSH connections. This value is a starting point. ansible-provisioner will attempt listen for SSH connections on the first available of ten ports, starting at local_port. When local_port is missing or empty, ansible-provisioner will listen on a system-chosen port.
• sftp_command (string) - The command to run on the machine to handle the SFTP protocol that Ansible will use to transfer files. The command should read and write on stdin and stdout, respectively. Defaults to /usr/lib/sftp-server -e.