I have also encountered this exact same problem and after some considerable head-banging found that the problem manifested itself when running as a root user. Creating, within my container, a non-root user and running packer as that user resulted in normal operation. Regards M
On Friday, 10 November 2017 14:59:00 UTC, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > Could you provide your template and playbook? > > On 10 November 2017 at 15:23, Travis Stevens <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> This question mixes Ansible and Packer as I am having a lot of problems >> locating the issue. >> We have a build server that currently executes an Ansible playbook that >> calls packer to create new images. Works Great. >> I am testing doing this from inside a docker container using Code Build >> and bitbucket pipelines. >> >> The first weirdness we encountered was Packer not being able to determine >> what user the container was running as and we solved that by setting the >> environment variable USER=root. >> After that packer is able to connect to AWS and spin up an instance to >> run the additional playbooks. There seems to be a difference in the way >> packer is executing Ansible from the old build server and the new container >> builder. The same scripts fail in the containerized build. It seems it is >> not running commands as sudo and they fail because of permissions. >> >> Any insight is helpful. Thanks >> >> -- >> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in >> violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing >> list. >> >> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues >> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Packer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/a1136a06-6e8f-4057-ba16-3956f696d1c2%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/a1136a06-6e8f-4057-ba16-3956f696d1c2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7fae3a6b-ebf8-4405-acf1-2c40cc7598b4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
