hashicorp/packer-plugin-ansible

[provisioner/ansible] roles_path is not taken into account

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#29 opened on Apr 16, 2021

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This issue was originally opened by @nWmCZ as hashicorp/packer#7993. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

Parameter roles_path is not taken into account with ansible provisioner on azure-arm

  • Packer version 1.4.3
  • Host platform MacOS 10.14.6 / azure-arm
  • Ansible 2.8.3

Gist related content (forgive me, I don't know how to quote it yet) https://gist.github.com/nWmCZ/70441b91ee64f3cef0fc14b1e8ec09b5

EDIT: Already found workaround:

"ansible_env_vars": [ ["ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=/git/roles"] ]

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Inspect the Ansible provisioner code to see how roles path is used and ensure it is passed to the ansible playbook command.
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