Reposting as my previous response was deleted (as reported by Google groups).
Thanks for the troubleshooting tip. I think the use-case needs clarification. On EC2 Docker host, when the container is fired up -- build job calls 'packer build . . .' which uses definitions in the JSON template to run set of ansible playbooks. Intent is to create AMI _not_ of the Docker container but launch a temporary EC2 instance (amazon builder, as defined in the JSON) where the playbooks should be executed. /Ram On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 2:01:51 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > First of all Packer doesn't work with remote Docker hosts. (I updated the > docs to be more clear on this just some days ago, pending deploy, see > https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/5992) > > If you instead run a Jenkins agent on the host you would like to run the > packer build on everything should work out-of-the-box. If not the best way > to troubleshot it is to add a sleep into the container and jump in to it > and verify that you get appropriate AWS access keys and roles from the > metadata api: > > curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ > <role-name> > > On 14 March 2018 at 10:10, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> If I understand correctly, you want to run packer inside the EC2 that >> have jenkins to build docker inside the EC2 with docker, right? >> >> Can you setup DOCKER_HOST variable before running packer and testing you >> can list/build using docker commands ? >> >> If this is setup, share your template.json output of docker version on >> the remote EC2 machine and packer build debug logs >> >> Thanks >> Alvaro >> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:35 AM, Ramanathan Muthaiah <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> In a AWS cloud environment (personal account), I have a EC2 instance >>> acting as Docker Host and another EC2 instance that runs Jenkins. From >>> Jenkins master, I have successfully configured to fire up container slaves >>> in the Docker Host -- intent is to have these containers as build agents. >>> >>> FYI, EC2 instance acting as the Docker Host is assigned an IAM role that >>> has complete access to create ec2 instances, key parirs, et al. >>> >>> With this setup, am attempting to run a packer build, from one of the >>> containers, to create a AMI. However, packer builds fails complaining about >>> the lack of permissions to launch source instance. >>> >>> FWIW, am using amazon-ebs builder in Packer template. Will it help if >>> the builder is changed to chroot ? >>> >>> The build jobs are run as non-root user. >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated ? >>> >>> /Ram >>> >>> -- >>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - >>> https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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