Re: [packer] user: could not determine current user from environment.?

[Matthew Hooker]

For some reason, Packer couldn't identify the user from the environment. This may already be solved if you use a newer version of Packer, but otherwise the solution is to add "user": "<username>" to the ansible provisioner, where <username> is the ansible_user you want to use. We don't recommend running packer as root.

Thanks,

--Matt Hooker

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:09 PM test <kswath...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi , i am trying to a gitlab-ci build using docker container

 ubuntu:latest 

i have installed packer and when i try to execute packer build command i am getting an error. please help me solve this error.

My image.json file

{

  "variables": {

  },

  "builders": [{

    "type": "amazon-ebs",

    "instance_type": "t2.large",

    "region": "us-east-1",

    "source_ami": "ami-d15a75c7",

    "security_group_id": "xxxxx",

    "subnet_id": "xxxxxxxxx",

    "ami_name": "gitlab-runner-as_ubuntu_docker_{{timestamp}}",

    "ssh_username": "ubuntu",

    "ssh_pty": true,

    "ssh_private_ip": true,

    "associate_public_ip_address": false,

    "shutdown_behavior": "stop",

    "ena_support": true

  }],

  "provisioners": [

    {

      "type": "shell",

      "inline": [

        "sudo apt-get -y update",

        "sudo apt-get install -y python-simplejson",

        "sudo apt-get install -y python-requests",

        "sudo apt-get install -y python-requests",

        "sudo apt-get install python-pip -y"

        ]

     },

     {

      "type": "ansible",

      "playbook_file": "/builds/infra/packer-role-gitlab-runner-autoscaling/playbook.yml",

      "ansible_env_vars": [

        "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False",

        "ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TMP=/tmp/ansible",

        "ANSIBLE_ASK_SUDO_PASS=False",

        "ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER=ubuntu",

        "ANSIBLE_USER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3",

        "PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/bin/python2.7/site-packages",

        "REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"

      ]

    },

     {

      "type": "shell",

      "script": "/builds/infra/packer-role-gitlab-runner-autoscaling/script.sh"

     }

  ]

}

$ packer -version
1.1.2
$ whoami
root
$ packer_log=1 packer build image.json
amazon-ebs output will be in this color.

1 error(s) occurred:

* user: could not determine current user from environment.
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

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[test]

Thank you for the prompt reply :)