Usually I add a null builder to the template. Then you can either A) add a
inline "sleep 3600" start a build with "packer build -only amazon-ebs
template.json". And when it pauses the provisioning in another terminal run
"packer build -only null -var debug_ip=IP -var private_key...
template.json" and iterate over your provisioning scripts quickly. Or B)
just launch a EC2 instance manually and run the null builder against that.
{
"variables": {
"debug_ip": "",
"private_key": "",
"keypair": ""
},
"builders": [
{
"type": "amazon-ebs",
[...]
},
{
"type": "null",
"ssh_host": "{{ user `debug_ip`}}",
"ssh_username": "{{ user `username`}}",
"ssh_private_key_file": "{{ user `private_key`}}"
}
],
}
On 11 February 2018 at 12:11, tushar mathur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to provision my ami using a set of custom shell scripts. Sadly
> every time they fail I have to recreate an ec2 instance from scratch. This
> makes sense when I am deploying in production but at the time of debugging
> and trying out different commands it becomes really slow.
>
> Is there a way for me to actually reuse the state in which ec2 instance is
> currently and keep running the provisioners again and again?
>
> I tried the --on-error argument but that only runs on the last failed step
> where as what I really want is to run the provisioning again from scratch.
>
> packer build --debug -on-error=ask packer-aws.json
>
> Thanks!
>
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