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. [0m
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 error(s) occurred:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * Error running "ansible-playbook --version": exec: "ansible-playbook": 
>>>>>>> executable file not found in $PATH
>>>>>>> Finished: FAILURE
>>>>>>> Build step 'Packer' marked build as failure
>>>>>>> Finished: FAILURE
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any clues on how to solve this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
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