Packer: Packer not using python3 as remote intepreter for ansible provisioner

[pkaramol]

I am trying to build an amazon AMI using the EBS builder and provision it using ansible.

I am using as a source ami the Ubuntu 18.04

Despite the following settings:

  "provisioners": [
      {
      "type": "ansible",
      "extra_arguments": [
        "-e 'ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3',"
      ],
      "playbook_file": "ansible/site.yml",
      "ansible_env_vars": [ "ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=../ansible/roles" ,"ANSIBLE_RETRY_FILES_ENABLED=False", "ANSIBLE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER=/usr/bin/python3" ],
      "user": "{{user `username`}}"
     }
  ],

The remote interpreter is not set appropriately

    amazon-ebs:
    amazon-ebs: PLAY [all] *********************************************************************
    amazon-ebs:
    amazon-ebs: TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
    amazon-ebs: Tuesday 18 December 2018  20:40:53 +0200 (0:00:00.053)       0:00:00.053 ******
    amazon-ebs: fatal: [default]: FAILED! => changed=false
    amazon-ebs:   module_stderr: |-
    amazon-ebs:     /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found
    amazon-ebs:     Shared connection to 127.0.0.1 closed.
    amazon-ebs:   module_stdout: ''
    amazon-ebs:   msg: |-
    amazon-ebs:     MODULE FAILURE
    amazon-ebs:     See stdout/stderr for the exact error
    amazon-ebs:   rc: 127
    amazon-ebs:
    amazon-ebs: PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
    amazon-ebs: default                    : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1
    amazon-ebs:
    amazon-ebs: Tuesday 18 December 2018  20:40:55 +0200 (0:00:01.694)       0:00:01.748 ******
    amazon-ebs: ===============================================================================
    amazon-ebs: Gathering Facts --------------------------------------------------------- 1.70s

Host OS:

(issue/DEVOPS-472)*$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic


*$ uname -a
Linux pkara-pc01 4.15.0-42-generic #45~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 19 13:02:27 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ packer -version
1.3.1

[rickard-von-essen]

Pretty sure your extra_arguments is wrong. It should be:

 "extra_arguments": [
        "-e",
        "'ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3'"
      ],

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