Running packer hcl2_upgrade and getting pkr.hcl file with template hcl2_upgrade unexpected in operand
Introduction Since Packer v1.7.0, it is recommended to use HCL2 instead of JSON for Packer templates. The .pkr.hcl file generated by the hcl2_upgrade command, which converts a Packer template written in JSON to HCL2 format, will output "template: hcl2_upgrade:3: unexpected \"\\\\\" in operand" in the .pkr.hcl file generated by executing the .pkr.hcl command. Solution https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/10728#issuecomment-793199077 In this case, the \" (escaped quote) used for escaping was not parsing JSON properly. You can work around this problem by changing \" (escaped quote) to backtick. Before Running packer hcl2_upgrade on a JSON file defined as follows… { "builders": [{ "type": "amazon-ebs", ... ... "ami_name": "ami_name-{{isotime \"2006-01-02-15-04-MST\"| clean_resource_name}}" }], }} The following .pkr.hcl file will be generated. # could not parse template for th...