ansible does not use ansible.builtin.include_vars in pre_tasks and use only roles:

[gilkatz64]

The following playbook runs without any problem from command line

• name: testing group_vars
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  pre_tasks:

  • name: include services yaml files
    ansible.builtin.include_vars:
    dir: group_vars/services

  roles:

  • role: print-test

but when I run this from packer ansible skip pre_tasks section
we are using packer 1.8.3 since we are also using chef provisioner