Clarify what the labels of a source block do. (#11236)

Co-authored-by: Sylvia Moss <moss@hashicorp.com>
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Adrien Delorme 5 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -12,29 +12,38 @@ The top-level `source` block defines reusable builder configuration blocks:
`@include 'from-1.5/sources/example-block.mdx'`
The first label — `happycloud` here — is the builder type. The second label is
the unique name or identifier you want to give to the source. There can be only one
`source.happycloud.foo` top-level source block; but it can be used more than
once. Builders are usually found in plugins, except for the `file` and the
`null` builders that will remain in Packer core.
You can start builders by refering to those source blocks from a [`build`
block](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/blocks/build), for example :
block](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/blocks/build) :
```hcl
build {
sources = [
# Here Packer will use a default ami_name when saving the image.
"source.amazon-ebs.example",
"source.amazon-ebs.foo",
"source.happycloud.example",
"source.happycloud.foo",
]
}
```
The build-level [`source` block](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/blocks/build/source) allows to
set specific source fields.
The build-level [`source`
block](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/blocks/build/source) allows to set specific
source fields. Each field must be defined only once and it is currently not
allowed to override a value.
```hcl
build {
source "source.amazon-ebs.example" {
# Here Packer will use the provided ami_name instead of defaulting it.
source "source.happycloud.example" {
# Here Packer will use the provided image_name instead of defaulting it.
# Note that fields cannot be overwritten, in other words, you cannot
# set the 'ami_name' field in the top-level source block.
ami_name = "specific"
# set the 'image_name' field in the top-level source block and here at the
# same time
image_name = "build_specific_field"
}
}
```

@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
```hcl
# sources.pkr.hcl
source "amazon-ebs" "example-1" {
source "happycloud" "foo" {
// ...
}
```

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