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MC Tevez
MC Tevez

Reputation: 11

Packer file provisioner doesn't copy

I have a File Provisioner configured on my packer template json:

"provisioners": [{
        "type": "file",
        "source": "packer/api-clients/database.yml",
        "destination": "/tmp/api-clients-database.yml"
    },

The code below doesn't work when I'm trying to build an AMI on Amazon AWS, it always says: 

Bad source 'packer/api-clients/database.yml': stat packer/api-clients/database.yml: no such file or directory

If I do this:

"source": "api-clients/database.yml",

It works like a charm. But I must have all my Packer files inside of a packer folder within my app folder for organization purposes.

What am I doing wrong?

My app folder is like this:

api_v1
├── template.json
├── app
│   ├── bin
│   ├── config
│   ├── packer
│   │   ├── api-clients
│   │   │   └── database.yml
│   ├── lib
│   ├── log
│   ├── ...

It seems that it has something to do with Relative Paths / Absolute Paths on Packer but I couldn't figure out what is wrong...

Thanks in advance,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5744

Answers (2)

Marcus Adams
Marcus Adams

Reputation: 1267

It is as you have surmised a path thing.

You do not say from what folder you are calling packer and what the calling command is, or when you have it working with "source": "api-clients/database.yml", if you have moved the api-clients folder or it works with packer in that location.

If your folder structure will always look that way then to avoid confusions if you use a full path for the source it will always work no matter where you run packer from

eg /api_v1/app/packer/api-clients/database.yml

if you must use relative paths then make sure that the source path is always relative from the folder in which packer is run.

Upvotes: 0

Rickard von Essen
Rickard von Essen

Reputation: 4278

Since the path doesn't start with a / it's a relative path. The are relative to the current working directory when executing packer build.

With source packer/api-clients/database.yml you have to run packer from the app directory, i.e.

packer build ../template.json

With source api-clients/database.yml you have to run packer from the packer directory, i.e.

packer build ../../template.json

For more info see Packer documentation - File provisioner: source.

Upvotes: 1

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