Build problem: proxmox: ansible-playbook: error: unrecognized arguments:

[DavidGhiro]

I'm trying to build a debian template. But I always get this error "proxmox: ansible-playbook: error: unrecognized arguments:". It looks like missing quotes. What am I doing wrong?

packer-provisioner-ansible plugin: SSH proxy: serving on 127.0.0.1:46181
==> proxmox: Executing Ansible: ansible-playbook --extra-vars packer_build_name=proxmox packer_builder_type=proxmox -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible812930714 /usr/local/src/debian-10-amd64-proxmox/playbook/server-template.yml -e ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/tmp/ansible-key292977767 --extra-vars packer_http_addr=192.168.1.87:8306  --extra-vars vm_default_user=user --tags all,is_template --skip-tags openbsd,alpine
    proxmox: usage: ansible-playbook [-h] [--version] [-v] [-k] [--private-key PRIVATE_KEY_FILE] [-u REMOTE_USER] [-c CONNECTION] [-T TIMEOUT] [--ssh-common-args SSH_COMMON_ARGS] [--sftp-extra-args SFTP_EXTRA_ARGS]
    proxmox:                         [--scp-extra-args SCP_EXTRA_ARGS] [--ssh-extra-args SSH_EXTRA_ARGS] [--force-handlers] [--flush-cache] [-b] [--become-method BECOME_METHOD] [--become-user BECOME_USER] [-K] [-t TAGS] [--skip-tags SKIP_TAGS]
    proxmox:                         [-C] [--syntax-check] [-D] [-i INVENTORY] [--list-hosts] [-l SUBSET] [-e EXTRA_VARS] [--vault-id VAULT_IDS] [--ask-vault-pass | --vault-password-file VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES] [-f FORKS] [-M MODULE_PATH]
    proxmox:                         [--list-tasks] [--list-tags] [--step] [--start-at-task START_AT_TASK]
    proxmox:                         playbook [playbook ...]
    proxmox: ansible-playbook: error: unrecognized arguments:

Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 10.6
Proxmox pve-manager/6.2-15/48bd51b6 (running kernel: 5.4.65-1-pve)
Packer v1.5.5

Your version of Packer is out of date! The latest version
is 1.6.5. You can update by downloading from www.packer.io/downloads.html
ansible 2.9.7
  python version = 3.7.3 (default, Jul 25 2020, 13:03:44) [GCC 8.3.0]
j2cli 0.3.10, Jinja2 2.11.2

[dreic]

Hi @DavidGhiro I am facing same problem with Packer. Did you mange to figure out what's the problem?

==> amazon-ebs: Provisioning with Ansible...
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397 | amazon-ebs: Setting up proxy adapter for Ansible....
398 | ==> amazon-ebs: Executing Ansible: ansible-playbook -e packer_build_name="amazon-ebs" -e packer_builder_type=amazon-ebs --ssh-extra-args '-o IdentitiesOnly=yes' --vault-password-file vault-password -e ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/tmp/ansible-key656332028 -i /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible690532395 /codebuild/output/src777574068/src/github.com/xxxx/terraform-it-packer/packer/ansible-standard-linux/site.yml
399 | amazon-ebs: usage: ansible-playbook [-h] [--version] [-v] [-k]

[patsevanton]

Hi!
I try build image by packer.
And i have same issue
Source code https://github.com/patsevanton/packer-ansible-active-directory-yandex-cloud

ansible-playbook -e packer_build_name="yandex" -e packer_builder_type=yandex --tags install --extra-vars ansible_port=5986 ansible_connection=winrm ansible_winrm_transport=basic ansible_user=Administrator ansible_password=xxxxxxxxx ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore -i /home/apatsev/packer-ansible-active-directory-yandex-cloud/packer-provisioner-inventory /home/apatsev/packer-ansible-active-directory-yandex-cloud/ansible/packer_active_directory.yml 

usage: ansible-playbook [-h] [--version] [-v] [-k] [--private-key PRIVATE_KEY_FILE] [-u REMOTE_USER] [-c CONNECTION] [-T TIMEOUT] [--ssh-common-args SSH_COMMON_ARGS]
                        [--sftp-extra-args SFTP_EXTRA_ARGS] [--scp-extra-args SCP_EXTRA_ARGS] [--ssh-extra-args SSH_EXTRA_ARGS] [--force-handlers] [--flush-cache] [-b]
                        [--become-method BECOME_METHOD] [--become-user BECOME_USER] [-K] [-t TAGS] [--skip-tags SKIP_TAGS] [-C] [--syntax-check] [-D] [-i INVENTORY] [--list-hosts]
                        [-l SUBSET] [-e EXTRA_VARS] [--vault-id VAULT_IDS] [--ask-vault-password | --vault-password-file VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES] [-f FORKS] [-M MODULE_PATH]
                        [--list-tasks] [--list-tags] [--step] [--start-at-task START_AT_TASK]
                        playbook [playbook ...]
ansible-playbook: error: unrecognized arguments: /home/apatsev/packer-ansible-active-directory-yandex-cloud/ansible/packer_active_directory.yml

Inventory

cat packer-provisioner-inventory 
default ansible_host=xxxx ansible_connection=winrm ansible_winrm_transport=basic ansible_shell_type=powershell ansible_user=apatsev ansible_port=5986