Add support for packer init with multiple .hcl files #1271
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ExampleCreate the packer configuration.
build {
sources = [
"source.amazon-ebs.ubuntu"
]
provisioner "shell" {
inline = [
"cloud-init status --wait",
]
}
provisioner "shell" {
inline = [
"sudo apt-get update",
"sudo apt-get install -y apache2",
"echo \"<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>\" | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html",
"sudo systemctl restart apache2"
]
}
}
locals {
name = "ubuntu-${formatdate("YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm", timestamp())}"
}
data "amazon-ami" "ubuntu" {
most_recent = true
filters = {
name = "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-*"
virtualization-type = "hvm"
}
owners = ["099720109477"] # Canonical
}
source "amazon-ebs" "ubuntu" {
ami_name = "${local.name}"
ami_description = "Managed by Packer"
ami_virtualization_type = "hvm"
source_ami = data.amazon-ami.ubuntu.id
instance_type = "t3.micro"
communicator = "ssh"
ssh_username = "ubuntu"
snapshot_tags = {
Name = "${local.name}-snapshot"
}
tags = {
"Name" = "${local.name}"
}
}Create a test file based on terraform_packer_example_test.go and make the following edit:
// omitted...
packerOptions := &packer.Options{
Template: ".",
WorkingDir: workingDir,
}
// omitted...Then run terratest. go test -v ./packer_test.go
<omitted output>
TestMultipleStagesExample 2023-04-22T15:33:15+01:00 logger.go:66: Running Packer to generate a custom artifact for template .
TestMultipleStagesExample 2023-04-22T15:33:15+01:00 logger.go:66: Creating a temporary directory for Packer plugins
TestMultipleStagesExample 2023-04-22T15:33:15+01:00 logger.go:66: Running command packer with args [-version]
TestMultipleStagesExample 2023-04-22T15:33:15+01:00 logger.go:66: 1.8.6
TestMultipleStagesExample 2023-04-22T15:33:16+01:00 logger.go:66: Skipping 'packer init' because it is only supported for HCL2 templates
<ommited output>You can see in the console output that Proposed SolutionIf there isn't an option I've missed in the docs. I'd like to propose defaulting to initialising packer if packerOptions := &packer.Options{
WorkingDir: workingDir,
}I believe this solution would still be backwards compatible because a user could still provide an argument for |
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When the packer configuration is separated across multiple .hcl files, Terratest does not initialise packer when
Templatein the packer.Options is set to".". To get Terratest to initialise packer, I have to setTemplateto the path of a .hcl file.Is there an additional setting I am missing from my packer options? Or, is a modification to terratest required?
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