the jenkings user need to have: /home/ec2-user/ansible/bin
in the path. you can do that adding export PATH=$PATH:/home/ec2-user/ansible/bin to the end of .bashrc of the jenkins user and test On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Gaurav Rastogi <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenkins as a service runs under jenkins user. I changed its profile to be > able to run bash. and had added the path for ansible , it runs successfully > and creates an image. But the job from the jenkins portal fails still. It > doesn't seem to be a packer issue at this point. This discussion can be > closed if need be. > > On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 3:31:42 PM UTC-4, Megan Marsh wrote: >> >> I didn't try to run with jenkins, just ran your packer config. The >> playbook file ran just fine; so the issue isn't at all to do with your ec2 >> instance. It's with your local setup, be that the jenkins plugin itself, >> or, I think more likely, the fact that the jenkins user doesn't have >> ansible in its path. Add ansible to your jenkins user's path and you >> should be fine. >> >> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Gaurav Rastogi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your response. I ran the command and result is below: >>> >>> /home/ec2-user/ansible/test/runner/injector/ansible-playbook >>> /home/ec2-user/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook >>> >>> I actually ran packer independently as well: >>> >>> /usr/local/packer/packer build packer.json >>> >>> It did run but I ran this job as the ec2-user so I may be shooting in >>> the dark here but this could mean that the user that runs jenkins and the >>> packer job doesn't have ansible in the path, which is what I'm trying to >>> solve here. >>> >>> thanks for your response and interest in helping me! >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 3:18:40 PM UTC-4, Alvaro Miranda >>> Aguilera wrote: >>>> >>>> log in and try >>>> >>>> find / -name 'ansible-playbook' >>>> >>>> make sure that path is in the PATH of the user that run packer >>>> >>>> if ansible-playbook is on /sbin or /usr/sbin or /opt/bin may not be >>>> available to any user >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Gaurav Rastogi <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> ummm define properly :) >>>>> Good question though. Installing ansible on an amazon ec2 instance is >>>>> a pain in itself. So for the ec2-user, i can call out ansible with out any >>>>> issues. I did have to jump through loops to get it installed. I'm thinking >>>>> that whatever user packer runs as isn't able to find ansible. I want to >>>>> figure out which user that is and then somehow export PATH for that user >>>>> to >>>>> make this successful. >>>>> >>>>> When you say this worked for you, you have an ec2 machine with >>>>> jenkins, packer and ansible installed and using jenkins job it was able to >>>>> run with out failing? >>>>> >>>>> it may not be fruitful but I i'm going to try running packer directly >>>>> to observe the result. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for responding, hope you have some more inputs for me. >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 2:53:59 PM UTC-4, Megan Marsh wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> This works for me... do you have ansible installed properly on the >>>>>> machine that's running packer? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Gaurav Rastogi <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm running an ec2 instance on aws. On this instance, I have >>>>>>> jenkins, ansible and packer. I've created a jenkins job which uses the >>>>>>> packer plugin and runs the packer.json file locally. When I run the job >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> fails with below output from jenkins console: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Started by user admin <http://18.221.183.50/user/admin> >>>>>>> Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/packer >>>>>>> [packer] $ /usr/local/packer/packer build -debug >>>>>>> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/getrepopacker/packer.json >>>>>>> Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized. >>>>>>> [1;32mamazon-ebs output will be in this color. 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