hi packer on aws will create an instance, and packer will know how to ssh to that instance.
is not clear what you want to do. you are having an existing VM with a known IP you want to connect and run provisioners? or you want packer to build an ec2 instance with a fixed IP? where you read in the documentation how to setup a fixed ip in packer for AWS instance ? alvaro On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:27 PM venkat G <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to assign fixed or static ip address to the EC2. > > The below code is not working. > > "instance_type": "t2.micro", > "ami_name": "Prod-CIS-Latest-AMZN-{{isotime \"02-Jan-06 03_04_05\"}}", > "ami_description": "Amazon Linux CIS with Cloudwatch Logs agent", > "associate_public_ip_address": "true", > "vpc_id": "***********", > "subnet_id": "*************", > "security_group_id": "*********", > "communicator": "ssh", > "ssh_username": "ec2-user", > "ssh_host": " 10.112.16.204 ", > "ssh_interface": "private_ip" > > [Container] 2021/02/04 17:17:38 Running command packer build -color=false > packer_cis.json | tee build.log > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Prevalidating any provided VPC information > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Prevalidating AMI Name: > Prod-CIS-Latest-AMZN-04-Feb-21 05_17_38 > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Found Image ID: ami-085e8e97986e5710f > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Creating temporary keypair: > packer_601c2c32-4150-3553-fb9d-b351b5a2b137 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Launching a source AWS instance... > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Adding tags to source instance > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder" > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Instance ID: i-0ea3f33db710bd78a > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Waiting for instance (i-0ea3f33db710bd78a) to > become ready... > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Using ssh communicator to connect: 10.112.16.204 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Waiting for SSH to become available... > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Timeout waiting for SSH. > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Terminating the source AWS instance... > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Cleaning up any extra volumes... > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: No volumes to clean up, skipping > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Deleting temporary keypair... > Build 'AWS AMI Builder - CIS' errored after 6 minutes 34 seconds: Timeout > waiting for SSH. > [Container] 2021/02/04 17:17:38 Running command packer build -color=false > packer_cis.json | tee build.log > 32 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Prevalidating any provided VPC information > 33 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Prevalidating AMI Name: > Prod-CIS-Latest-AMZN-04-Feb-21 05_17_38 > 34 > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Found Image ID: ami-085e8e97986e5710f > 35 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Creating temporary keypair: > packer_601c2c32-4150-3553-fb9d-b351b5a2b137 > 36 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Launching a source AWS instance... > 37 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Adding tags to source instance > 38 > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder" > 39 > AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Instance ID: i-0ea3f33db710bd78a > 40 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Waiting for instance (i-0ea3f33db710bd78a) to > become ready... > 41 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Using ssh communicator to connect: > 10.112.16.204 > 42 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Waiting for SSH to become available... > 43 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Timeout waiting for SSH. > 44 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Terminating the source AWS instance... > 45 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Cleaning up any extra volumes... > 46 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: No volumes to clean up, skipping > 47 > ==> AWS AMI Builder - CIS: Deleting temporary keypair... > 48 > Build 'AWS AMI Builder - CIS' errored after 6 minutes 34 seconds: Timeout > waiting for SSH. > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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