I am build VM images using Hashicorp Packer and test those images at the end of the build using Testinfra.
Now I want to download a test report of my tests. This basically works fine with the file provisioner:
build {
sources = [
"sources.vmware-iso.vmware"
]
[...]
provisioner "shell" {
inline = ["py.test --junit-xml /tmp/testreport.xml -v /tmp/test.py"]
}
provisioner "file" {
destination = "${var.build_dir}/testreport.xml"
direction = "download"
source = "/tmp/testreport.xml"
}
}
MY problem is, that this only works if all tests succeed. Otherwise, the shell provisioner running the tests returns an error code and Packer terminates the build immediately. But I would like to have the test report to be downloaded even in case of an error. Is this possible somehow?
Lets try to use error-cleanup-provisioner.
This is example from Packer documentation, but you can try to use file instead of shell-local
source "null" "example" {
communicator = "none"
}
build {
sources = ["source.null.example"]
provisioner "shell-local" {
inline = ["exit 2"]
}
error-cleanup-provisioner "shell-local" {
inline = ["echo 'rubber ducky'> ducky.txt"]
}
}