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Using exo cli to display your vm templates in Exoscale

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To display your vm templates, as opposed to all available templates in Exoscale using the exo CLI, use the following (you should have already the environment variables set up to be able to use exo):

exo vm template list --mine
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?                  ID                  ?     NAME      ?      CREATION DATE       ?  ZONE   ? DISK SIZE ?
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? a58f0180-689d-4663-aa53-91111111111  ? my-ubuntu     ? 2020-08-12T13:44:01+0000 ? ch-dk-2 ? 50 GiB    ?
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Failed to initialize build ‘qemu’: post-processor type not found: exoscale-import

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Problem

Trying to follow along the example in the Exoscale article about creating custom templates, you get the error about exoscale-import not found, when you are trying to validate the packer template.

Solution

Make sure that you use a current packer installation as the exoscale-import was not supported in the older versions.

kosmas:terraform (add_vault *%)$ packer --version
1.0.4

So after installing the latest version the above error goes away

kosmas:terraform (add_vault *%)$ packer --version
1.6.1