Packer ssh server timeout

[ido....@toluna.com]

Hi all,

Trying to use amazon-ebs builder with ansible provision

I'm behind a NAT and trying to do the bake on aws, but after 5 minutes the ssh connections is shutdown and the bake fails

any thoughts? thanks

this is my packer json:

{

    "builders": [

      {

        "type": "amazon-ebs",

        "access_key": "{{user `aws_access_key`}}",

        "secret_key": "{{user `aws_secret_key`}}",

        "region": "{{user `aws_region`}}",

        "iam_instance_profile": "{{user `iam_instance_profile`}}",

        "launch_block_device_mappings": [ {

            "device_name": "/dev/sda1",

            "volume_size": "{{user `volume`}}"

        } ],

        "source_ami": "{{user `source_ami_id`}}",

        "associate_public_ip_address": true,

        "force_deregister": true,

        "ssh_pty": false,

        "ssh_timeout": "600s",

        "ssh_keypair_name" : "{{user `ssh_keypair_name`}}",

        "ssh_private_key_file" : "{{user `ssh_private_key_file`}}",

        "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh_user`}}",

        "instance_type": "{{user `ami_instance_type`}}",

        "ami_name": "{{user `ami_name`}} {{isotime `2006-01-02 03_04_05`}}",

        "ami_regions": ["us-west-1","us-west-2","eu-west-1","eu-central-1"],

        "tags": {

          "Name": "{{user `ami_name`}}",

          "Version": "{{user `version`}}",

          "Packer": "true"

        },

        "ami_description": "{{user `ami_description`}}"

      }

    ],

    "provisioners": [

       {

          "type": "ansible",

          "ansible_env_vars": [ "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False","ANSIBLE_CONFIG=/home/admin/ioto-edge/ansible.cfg"],

          "playbook_file": "{{user `playbook_file`}}",

          "host_alias":"{{user `ami_name`}}",

          "user":"{{user `ssh_user`}}",

          "extra_arguments": [ "--vault-password-file","{{user `vault_file`}}"]

       }

     ]

}

[Rickard von Essen]

It's not very useful when everything is a user variable. Can supply the values of those, say which distribution the source ami is and run with `PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json` and attach the full log. 

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[ido....@toluna.com]

Hi Rickard,

Sorry for that, the users variables are because we are using Spinnaker to pass them to the json as part of a pipeline.

We are trying to run m3.medium machine with this source ami-47a23a30.

The thing that happens is that every time after around 5 minutes packer gets stuck and this is how its log ends either without any indication: 

http://pastebin.com/c3Eu9Aat

or like this:

http://pastebin.com/7UYizYDq

Which means that by the error code the server closed the connection. 

No clue why it happens,

Any help would be appreciated 

Ido.

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[Rickard von Essen]

Looks like ansible is failing on this:

2017/01/18 11:09:08 ui:     amazon-ebs: failed: [CrossenseEdge] (item=[u'pkg-config', u'libboost-all-dev', u'scons']) => {"failed": true, "item": ["pkg-config", "libboost-all-dev", "scons"], "module_stderr": "", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE", "parsed": false}

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[ido....@toluna.com]

I think it's a generic error message, Every time the connection is lost it shows "MODULE FAILURE" on the current task the ansible was running.