diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 80927fa7cd6097ca6800d6987cf6239b98415597..7b4efd66ce665e7995817f9b0c85e559cd3f58eb 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ repos:
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: detect-private-key
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
-        exclude: VERSION
+        exclude: VERSION|test_files
       - id: trailing-whitespace
 
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell.git
diff --git a/test_files/packer.json b/test_files/packer.json
index e26c6e1c5b18fb042ab7546b07d544df09bb5364..7883488601cefd329259fa400c4aa86c602f671e 100644
--- a/test_files/packer.json
+++ b/test_files/packer.json
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 {
+  "builders": [
+    {
+      "access_key": "{{user `access_key`}}",
+      "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}",
+      "instance_type": "t1.micro",
+      "region": "us-east-1",
+      "secret_key": "{{user `access_key`}}",
+      "source_ami": "ami-de0d9eb7",
+      "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
+      "type": "amazon-ebs"
+    }
+  ],
   "variables": {
     "access_key": "{{env `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`}}",
     "secret_key": "{{env `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`}}"
-  },
-  "builders": [{
-    "type": "amazon-ebs",
-    "access_key": "{{user `access_key`}}",
-    "secret_key": "{{user `access_key`}}",
-    "region": "us-east-1",
-    "source_ami": "ami-de0d9eb7",
-    "instance_type": "t1.micro",
-    "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
-    "ami_name": "packer-example {{timestamp}}"
-  }]
+  }
 }
+