Amazon builder never notices that instance is ready

[adam....@getflywheel.com]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get a basic packer build working and it keeps timing out waiting for the instance to become ready.

Packer: 1.1.3
OS Version: macOS 10.13.1
Go: 1.9.2 darwin/amd64

I am able to successfully SSH into the machine using the debug keypair.

Here's the config I'm using:

{
  "variables": {
    "aws_access_key": "{{env `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`}}",
    "aws_secret_key": "{{env `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`}}"
  },
  "builders": [{
    "type": "amazon-ebs",
    "access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",
    "secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",
    "region": "us-east-1",
    "source_ami_filter": {
      "filters": {
        "virtualization-type": "hvm",
        "name": "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*",
        "root-device-type": "ebs"
      },
      "owners": ["099720109477"],
      "most_recent": true
    },
    "instance_type": "t2.micro",
    "subnet_id": "subnet-1128b52b",
    "security_group_id": "sg-3116b34c",
    "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
    "ami_name": "redis-proxy {{timestamp}}"
  }]
}

gist of my log output: https://gist.github.com/alassek/b15a7b0e802dc628d223b569c054a6ba

Am I missing something obvious here?

[Ian W]

You are seeing the exact same thing that I am seeing. I have yet to figure out what is going on. You can see my post here. I have provided a bit more information so hopefully can get to the bottom of it. It is interesting to note that you are on macOS and I am on Ubuntu and we both see the same problem. 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/packer-tool/q8JC6JaHAIs

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello Adam

Are you building from outside the AWS subnet network? ie from computer at home/work?

Does your subnet have public IPV4 on by default?

Or you can test adding: associate_public_ip_address 

Alvaro.​

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[Rickard von Essen]

Networking shouldn't matter since this seems to be a problem with that packer don't "see" that the instance is in running state. See the other referenced thread which contains quite much information. 

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[Adam Lassek]

Yes, it has public IPv4 addresses, like I said before I can SSH into it just fine using the debug key pair.

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[Matthew Hooker]

cross-posting from the other thread:

Thanks for the report. We recently changed how we wait for instances to become ready, and I think this is related to that. This will be fixed in the next version of packer. In the meantime, can you use 1.1.2? If there's a feature in 1.1.3 that you need, I think I can probably provide a patch that should fix this for you. Tracking here https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5705#issuecomment-352082197

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[Adam Lassek]

I can confirm that 1.1.2 works with Amazon, so I will do that. Thanks for the help.

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[Matthew Hooker]

Hi Adam,

Glad you got it working by downgrading to 1.1.2. Out of curiosity, did you have the IAM permission ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus? We added a new permissions requirement (see context at https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5694), and adding that I think might fix your builds in 1.1.3. If you have the opportunity to test that, I'd be grateful to know if that's the root cause, or if there is another issue.

Thanks,

--Matt Hooker

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