I am unable to create image on packer while debugging i am getting a configuration error .

MANOHAR PATHIKANI

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Feb 18, 2019, 10:22:24 AM2/18/19

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Hello Everyone,

I am new to the packer , i have created one sample JSON file to create image but while debugging on packer i am getting configuration error. not sure what configurations need to do for this. Could you please some one help on this to get resolve this. I have attached the screenshot for your reference.

Rgds,

Manohar Pathikani

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Rickard von Essen

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Feb 18, 2019, 10:43:07 AM2/18/19

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Could you proved your template and full packer log (as text) please.

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MANOHAR PATHIKANI

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Feb 21, 2019, 5:17:33 AM2/21/19

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Hi Richard,

Thanks for your help, please find the below template but i am unable to found logs path on ubuntu. Could you please provide path for packer logs .

{

"builders": [

{

"type": "amazon-ebs",

"access_key": "",

"secret_key": "",

"region": "us-east-1",

"source_ami": "ami-01ac7d9c1179d7b74",

"instance_type": "t2.micro",

"ssh_username": "ubuntu",

"ami_name": "packer_AWS"

}

]

}

.

Rgds,

Manohar

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Rickard von Essen

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Feb 21, 2019, 5:58:28 AM2/21/19

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Rerun packer build with PACKER_LOG=1, see https://packer.io/docs/other/environment-variables.html#packer_log

And provide the full log here.

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MANOHAR PATHIKANI

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Feb 21, 2019, 9:35:05 AM2/21/19

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Hi Richard,

thanks for your input, please find the below logs for your reference.

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Waiting for RPC address for: /usr/bin/packer

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 [INFO] Packer version: 1.0.4

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Packer Target OS/Arch: linux amd64

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Built with Go Version: go1.8.3

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Detected home directory from env var: /home/linux

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Attempting to open config file: /home/linux/.packerconfig

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /home/linux/.packerconfig

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Packer config: &{DisableCheckpoint:false DisableCheckpointSignature:false PluginMinPort:10000 PluginMaxPort:25000 Builders:map[] PostProcessors:map[] Provisioners:map[]}

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Detected home directory from env var: /home/linux

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Setting cache directory: /home/linux/packer_cache

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 args: []string{"packer-builder-amazon-ebs"}

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Plugin minimum port: 10000

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Plugin maximum port: 25000

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Plugin address: unix /tmp/packer-plugin957213842

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Waiting for connection...

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Serving a plugin connection...

amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

2019/02/21 14:21:07 ui: amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

2019/02/21 14:21:07 ui:

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Build debug mode: false

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Force build: false

2019/02/21 14:21:07 On error:

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Preparing build: amazon-ebs

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Detected home directory from env var: /home/linux

2019/02/21 14:21:07 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:07 Config: {PackerConfig:{PackerBuildName:amazon-ebs PackerBuilderType:amazon-ebs PackerDebug:false PackerForce:false PackerOnError: PackerUserVars:map[]} AccessConfig:{AccessKey:<Filtered> CustomEndpointEc2: ProfileName: RawRegion:us-east-1 SecretKey:<Filtered> SkipValidation:false Token: session:<nil>} AMIConfig:{AMIName:packer_AWS AMIDescription: AMIVirtType: AMIUsers:[] AMIGroups:[] AMIProductCodes:[] AMIRegions:[] AMISkipRegionValidation:false AMITags:map[] AMIEnhancedNetworking:false AMIForceDeregister:false AMIForceDeleteSnapshot:false AMIEncryptBootVolume:false AMIKmsKeyId: AMIRegionKMSKeyIDs:map[] SnapshotTags:map[] SnapshotUsers:[] SnapshotGroups:[]} BlockDevices:{AMIBlockDevices:{AMIMappings:[]} LaunchBlockDevices:{LaunchMappings:[]}} RunConfig:{AssociatePublicIpAddress:false AvailabilityZone: EbsOptimized:false IamInstanceProfile: InstanceType:t2.micro RunTags:map[] SourceAmi:ami-01ac7d9c1179d7b74 SourceAmiFilter:{Filters:map[] Owners:[] MostRecent:false} SpotPrice: SpotPriceAutoProduct: DisableStopInstance:false SecurityGroupId: SecurityGroupIds:[] SubnetId: TemporaryKeyPairName:packer_5c6eb3d3-9a0e-19a1-48ec-9375eeba8559 UserData: UserDataFile: WindowsPasswordTimeout:20m0s VpcId: InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior:stop Comm:{Type:ssh SSHHost: SSHPort:22 SSHUsername:ubuntu SSHPassword: SSHPrivateKey: SSHPty:false SSHTimeout:5m0s SSHAgentAuth:false SSHDisableAgent:false SSHHandshakeAttempts:10 SSHBastionHost: SSHBastionPort:0 SSHBastionAgentAuth:false SSHBastionUsername: SSHBastionPassword: SSHBastionPrivateKey: SSHFileTransferMethod:scp WinRMUser: WinRMPassword: WinRMHost: WinRMPort:0 WinRMTimeout:0s WinRMUseSSL:false WinRMInsecure:false WinRMUseNTLM:false WinRMTransportDecorator:<nil>} SSHKeyPairName: SSHPrivateIp:false} VolumeRunTags:map[] ctx:{Data:<nil> Funcs:map[clean_ami_name:0xb37e50] UserVariables:map[] EnableEnv:false BuildName:amazon-ebs BuildType:amazon-ebs TemplatePath:/home/linux/nginix.json}}

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Waiting on builds to complete...

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Starting build run: amazon-ebs

2019/02/21 14:21:07 Running builder: amazon-ebs

2019/02/21 14:21:07 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder amazon-ebs

2019/02/21 14:21:07 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name...

==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name...

2019/02/21 14:21:10 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:10 Using AMI Filters {

2019/02/21 14:21:10 packer: ImageIds: ["ami-01ac7d9c1179d7b74"]

2019/02/21 14:21:10 packer: }

2019/02/21 14:21:10 ui: amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-01ac7d9c1179d7b74

amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-01ac7d9c1179d7b74

2019/02/21 14:21:10 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5c6eb3d3-9a0e-19a1-48ec-9375eeba8559

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5c6eb3d3-9a0e-19a1-48ec-9375eeba8559

==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_5c6eb3d7-5ffb-7b32-fc96-a329dab2e92c

2019/02/21 14:21:11 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_5c6eb3d7-5ffb-7b32-fc96-a329dab2e92c

==> amazon-ebs: Authorizing access to port 22 on the temporary security group...

2019/02/21 14:21:12 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Authorizing access to port 22 on the temporary security group...

2019/02/21 14:21:12 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:12 [DEBUG] Waiting for temporary security group: sg-07f8727fa340be1fb

2019/02/21 14:21:13 packer: 2019/02/21 14:21:13 [DEBUG] Found security group sg-07f8727fa340be1fb

2019/02/21 14:21:13 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...

==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...

2019/02/21 14:21:14 ui error: ==> amazon-ebs: Error launching source instance: Unsupported: The requested configuration is currently not supported. Please check the documentation for supported configurations.

==> amazon-ebs: status code: 400, request id: 243d4f51-8288-447a-a45e-5b35eadd271e

==> amazon-ebs: Error launching source instance: Unsupported: The requested configuration is currently not supported. Please check the documentation for supported configurations.

==> amazon-ebs: status code: 400, request id: 243d4f51-8288-447a-a45e-5b35eadd271e

2019/02/21 14:21:14 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping

2019/02/21 14:21:14 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...

==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary security group...

2019/02/21 14:21:15 ui: ==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...

==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...

2019/02/21 14:21:16 [INFO] (telemetry) ending amazon-ebs

2019/02/21 14:21:16 [INFO] (telemetry) found error: Error launching source instance: Unsupported: The requested configuration is currently not supported. Please check the documentation for supported configurations.