Ansible

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

Installation

Packer v1.7.0 and later

packer {
    required_plugins {
        ansible = {
          version = "~> 1"
          source = "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.