Ansible

The Ansible plugin allows users to execute as a provisioner during a Packer build.

Installation

To install this plugin add this code into your Packer configuration and run packer init

packer {
  required_plugins {
    ansible = {
      version = "~> 1"
      source = "github.com/hashicorp/ansible"
    }
  }
}

Alternatively, you can use packer plugins install to manage installation of this plugin.

packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/ansible

Components

Note: Ansible will not be installed automatically by this provisioner. This provisioner expects that Ansible is already installed on the guest/remote machine. It is common practice to use the shell provisioner before the Ansible provisioner to do this.

Provisioners:

• ansible - The Packer provisioner runs Ansible playbooks. It dynamically creates an Ansible inventory file configured to use SSH, runs an SSH server, executes ansible-playbook, and marshals Ansible plays through the SSH server to the machine being provisioned by Packer.

• ansible-local - The Packer provisioner will run ansible in ansible's "local" mode on the remote/guest VM using Playbook and Role files that exist on the guest VM. This means ansible must be installed on the remote/guest VM.