amazon-ebs: ERROR! The vault password file was not found

[Muralikrishna Gutha]

I am kind of new to using packer and having issues with running AMI builds, Build fails with `amazon-ebs: ERROR! The vault password file  was not found` any help/direction is appreciated. 

Please let me know if you need see any additional details 

"provisioners": [

{

"type": "shell",

"inline": [

"sudo apt-get update",

"echo here",

"sudo apt-get install -y ansible"

]

},

{

"playbook_file": "/Users/mgutha/Desktop/packer_Cassandra.yaml",

"role_paths": ["/Users/mgutha/Desktop/GitRepo/cassandra-ansible/roles/ansible_mgmt",

"/Users/mgutha/Desktop/GitRepo/cassandra-ansible/roles/virtualenv_ve27",

"/Users/mgutha/Desktop/GitRepo/cassandra-ansible/roles/ldap_setup"

],

"group_vars": "/Users/mgutha/Desktop/packer_var",

"extra_arguments": [

"--extra-vars",

"--vault-id",

"preprod@Users/mgutha/.ansible/vault/preprod_vault.txt"

],

"type": "ansible-local",

"pause_before": "10s"

}

ERROR from log file

2019/05/21 11:04:51 ui:     amazon-ebs: Executing Ansible: cd /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350 && ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 ansible-playbook /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer_Cassandra.yaml --extra-vars "packer_build_name=amazon-ebs packer_builder_type=amazon-ebs packer_http_addr= -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" --vault-id preprod@Users/mgutha/.ansible/vault/preprod_vault.txt -c local -i /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer-provisioner-ansible-local984352577

2019/05/21 11:04:51 packer: 2019/05/21 11:04:51 [DEBUG] Opening new ssh session

2019/05/21 11:04:51 packer: 2019/05/21 11:04:51 [DEBUG] starting remote command: cd /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350 && ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 ansible-playbook /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer_Cassandra.yaml --extra-vars "packer_build_name=amazon-ebs packer_builder_type=amazon-ebs packer_http_addr= -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" --vault-id preprod@Users/mgutha/.ansible/vault/preprod_vault.txt -c local -i /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer-provisioner-ansible-local984352577

2019/05/21 11:04:52 ui error: ==> amazon-ebs: ERROR! The vault password file /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/Users/mgutha/.ansible/vault/preprod_vault.txt was not found

2019/05/21 11:04:52 packer: 2019/05/21 11:04:52 [ERROR] Remote command exited with '1': cd /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350 && ANSIBLE_FORCE_COLOR=1 PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 ansible-playbook /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer_Cassandra.yaml --extra-vars "packer_build_name=amazon-ebs packer_builder_type=amazon-ebs packer_http_addr= -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" --vault-id preprod@Users/mgutha/.ansible/vault/preprod_vault.txt -c local -i /tmp/packer-provisioner-ansible-local/5ce41330-d37c-baa5-0b4a-a5353f37d350/packer-provisioner-ansible-local984352577

2019/05/21 11:04:52 packer: 2019/05/21 11:04:52 [INFO] RPC endpoint: Communicator ended with: 1

[Rickard von Essen]

Ansible-local is running on the VM you are packaging but it seems like you reference a local file (on the host) for the vault password. You need to transfer it with the file provisioner before, and be sure to delete it after you have executed ansible-local. 

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[Muralikrishna Gutha]

Yup tried that and that seems to be working. Thanks for your response. 

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Thanks & Regards
  Murali K Gutha