After hardening windows server 2016, packer is showing timeout

[Deval Ganatra]

Hi all,

I am trying to create AMI for CIS benchmark hardening. Other things are working fine except windows-restart provisioner. As restart is necessary in windows to complete so many things, I am trying to restart instance before creating AMI. Can anyone help me with that?

[Shashank]

Can you send me your packer. I am also hardening windows server 2016 following CIS benchmarks. Hope I can help. I am using ssh for connection. Are you using win-rm or ssh? 

[Shashank]

I am using inline commands under windows-shell provisioner. Can you try that also.

On Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 9:26:56 PM UTC+5:30, Deval Ganatra wrote:

[Shashank]

I can't share my entire json file , as it is part of my work and it may be a violation of rights. I am using this for restarting. Can you try this?

{
	"type": "powershell",
	"execute_command": "powershell -executionpolicy bypass \"& { if (Test-Path variable:global:ProgressPreference){\\$ProgressPreference='SilentlyContinue'};. {{.Vars}}; &'{{.Path}}'; exit \\$LastExitCode }\"",
	"pause_before": "15m",
	"inline": [
	"echo \"Restart Computer\"; Start-Sleep 5; Restart-Computer -force"
	]
	},

On Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 9:26:56 PM UTC+5:30, Deval Ganatra wrote:

[Deval Ganatra]

Ok, thank you. 

It's completely fine for not sharing code. I also haven't shared you.  I will try that.