packer-provisioner-ansible is a Packer plugin that provisions machines using Ansible.

packer-provsioner-ansible does not support SCP to transfer files.

Download and install Packer: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer#quick-start

It's recommended to build this plugin using goop. Install goop:

go get github.com/nitrous-io/goop && go build github.com/nitrous-io/goop

Then build the packer plugin. From within the plugin source code directory use the commands:

goop install && goop go build

Copy the binary packer-provisioner-ansible to your packer directory.

This is a fully functional template that will provision an image on DigitalOcean. Replace the mock api_token value with your own.

{
	"provisioners": [
		{
			"type": "ansible",
			"playbook_file": "./playbook.yml",
			"extra_arguments": ["--private-key", "./id_packer-ansible", "-v", "-c", "paramiko"],
			"ssh_authorized_key_file": "./id_packer-ansible.pub",
			"ssh_host_key_file": "./packer_host_private_key"
		}
	],

	"builders": [
		{
			"type": "digitalocean",
			"api_token": "6a561151587389c7cf8faa2d83e94150a4202da0e2bad34dd2bf236018ffaeeb",
			"image": "ubuntu-14-04-x64",
			"region": "sfo1"
		},
	]
}

• playbook_file - The playbook file to be run by Ansible.
• ssh_host_key_file - The SSH key that will be used to run the SSH server to which Ansible connects.
• ssh_authorized_key_file - The SSH public key of the Ansible ssh_user.

• local_port (string) - The port on which ansible-provisioner should first attempt to listen for SSH connections. This value is a starting point. ansible-provisioner will attempt listen for SSH connections on the first available of ten ports, starting at local_port. The default value is 2200.
• sftp_command (string) - The command to run on the machine to handle the SFTP protocol that Ansible will use to transfer files. The command should read and write on stdin and stdout, respectively. Defaults to /usr/lib/sftp-server -e.