Questions tagged [packer]
Packer is a tool which automates building and provisioning of VM and Docker images.
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Ansible Playbook: Failure to Transfer file
Running into an issue that I cannot figure out. I am attempting to update an ubuntu server (basically "sudo apt update) - please see code below:
test.pkr.hcl
packer {
required_plugins {
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Advices on automating installation for Debian 11
I'm currently trying to automate Debian 11 template creation through Packer for Nutanix environment and need some advices about preseeding/automating Debian installation.
First of all, after reading ...
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Unwanted partition after partman-auto configuration
I have an issue while i'm trying to automate the creation for my debian VM template.
I tried to create a specific disk partitioning with lvm, everything goes on correctly.
But after boot, I see that I ...
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Windows 11 Packer image fails to boot after sysprep, what logs can I check?
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I'm having problems with a Windows 11 Enterprose image that I have prepared with Packer, and sysprep'd using AWS's Ec2Launch v2 for preparation of importing the exported OVA into AWS as an ...
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Unattended.xml encrypt admin password in packer
I'm using packer and answerfile to build windows server image. When I set autologon and AdministratorPassword as plaintext, it works fine.
However, when I set autologon and AdministratorPassword as ...
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Force non-interactive setup on Debian/Ubuntu
I'm using packer to update an RStudio image that I maintain (https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/rstudio), this is something I do for the community. The 1st script in the pipeline starts with ...
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Packer build with Ubuntu 20.4 and autoinstall with vSphere 7.0
I am trying to build a packer image with packer 1.8.1 and Ubuntu 20.4
My HCL manifest is correct but I always get the prompt with " Continue with Autoinstall ? Add autoinstall in kernel command ...
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Adding a machine to a domain fails with internal error
I've enabled winrm, disabled firewall, enable remoting, GPOs for winrm, enabled SMBv1 and completed updates first as troubleshooting but I still get the error. I can ping the DC as well.
The error I ...
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Centos Stream 9 boot iso stuck during kickstart
I am trying to install a Centos Stream 9 boot iso on my mac M1 via VMware Fusion. I already solved a lot of issues that were preventing me to start installation. Now I get to the installation (I am ...
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Best practice for unattended upgrades on immutable servers
I use packer to build immutable Ubuntu 20.04 servers.
How can it work smoothly with unattended upgrades?
Since the image is not bundled like it was in the past the updates do not apply to new ...
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Add Windows VM to domain using Packer
I'm trying to create Windows images for usage on Azure using Packer. As part of this process, I need to put some files, which are located on an existing VM in Azure, in the image. My idea was to add ...
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Run script in Windows Azure VM after launch during packer build to configure WinRM and the firewall
Background: Apparently Packer has major issues configuring WinRM on Azure VMs created from the Microsoft Windows Server publisher. This is only one of the several issues and threads I've found on this ...
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Immutable Linux images - how far can and should I go?
Immutability is cool in order to realize consistency, predictability and reliability, and I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t strive for OS-level immutability when deploying my application on Linux ...
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How to end-to-end provision a virtual machine including OS on ESXi standalone using Terraform?
For a small environment I'm tasked to create automated infrastructure deployment for a couple of virtual machines running on a single ESXi host (without vCenter). The VMs should run CentOS 8 and I ...
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Adding arguments to Packer's Ansible provisioner
My Friday brain is really struggling to convert an Ansible command line into the format my Packer .json wants. The Ansible:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e @env/users/user01.yml --ask-vault --ask-...
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journalctl stops working randomly after boot on DigitalOcean droplet
I am building servers from a custom image I made using Packer on DigitalOcean, and I'm having a recurring issue where journalctl doesn't have any logs:
# journalctl
No journal files were found.
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OpenVPN AMI's built with packer incorrectly use the old public IP from the build in generated config files
When I build AMI's using Hashicorp Packer, based off the AWS OpenVPN AMI, the public ip address from the first instance performing the build will persist in later usage of the AMI when it should ...
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Heisenbug: ansible.windows.win_user fails with "Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion."
Using Packer to build an AMI based on Windows Server 2019, and Ansible as provisioner.
This is the provisioners part of my packer-build.json:
"provisioners": [
{
&...
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Replace WinRM with OpenSSH on Windows for use with Ansible on AWS
Currently when running extended builds (Packer/Ansible based) on Windows we have found that WinRM has errors so frequently as to be unusable and have had to fall back to running some large build jobs ...
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Can't connect to Windows EC2 instance built by Packer via SSM Agent
I'm using Packer to set up a Windows VM on the free tier of AWS EC2. The image is properly set up and I'm able to launch it, but I can't connect to it with SSM. Here's my Packer template:
{
"...
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Disconnected NIC on customized & deployed Ubuntu 18.04 templates
Within my vSphere 6.7 U3 environment, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 template generated by packer which I am then using Terraform to deploy two copies of. I am running into an issue where the deployed VMs ...
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Proxmox & Packer: VM quit/powerdown failed during a Packer build. Anyone have any ideas why?
I am trying to create a Proxmox VM template using Packer. However I am getting a Proxmox error saying Build 'proxmox' errored: Error converting VM to template, could not stop: VM quit/powerdown failed ...
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How to provide sudo pwd in packer shell provisioner
I want to create an AWS AMI using packer. Part of the setup process is running a build script, that will setup services and configure the environment for a system user averagejoe that is not root. The ...
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Issues getting networking working Packer VSphere-ISO Centos 7
While new to Packer and Kickstart scripts, I am trying to automate the setup of CentOS 7 (eventually 8) boxes in a VSphere cluster. My Packer code is calling a Kickstart script to complete the setup, ...
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Make image with packer for Google cloud
when I user packer build command I face this error and I gave the service account user but still have same issue
googlecompute: * The user does not have access to service account 'service-76109290228@...
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What the best way to export a Vagrant box to OVF?
My goal was to create a Virtual Machine programmatically like you would do for a container with docker and be able to export it in an OVF.
So I used Vagrant to create the VM. Combining Vagrant and ...
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unable to ssh into local qemu instance via port forward
I am trying to build a custom Ubuntu (ISO built from bionic - 18.04.2) qcow2 image via packer. This fails in the step where packer tries to SSH to the instance via port forward.
I can see from VNC ...
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How to update existing manage packer image in Azure?
I have created a ubuntu image by following code
{
"builders": [{
"type": "azure-arm",
"subscription_id": "XXXXXX",XXXXXXXX
"client_id": "XXXXXXX",
"client_secret": "06XXXXXXX",
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Partially Immutable infrastructure in AWS with Packer?
I'm a very young systems engineer/contractor sysadmin with a bandwidth-heavy workload that just moved to an area where I get 2mbps download and 20 upload on my internet connection. I'm moving my ...
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How to provide ssh_username when using packer to build a windows AMI
When I run packer build -var aws_access_key=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -var aws_secret_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY windows-2012.json
I got this error:
1 error(s) occurred:
* An ssh_username must be ...
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packer unable to parse json due to invalid character
I want to use packer to build an ami.
The AMI was initially built by an aws_instance resource in terraform. It contains the following user_data
<powershell>
winrm quickconfig -q
winrm set ...
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xenserver-iso: Error downloading: open : no such file or directory
I'm trying to build a "vdi_vhd" image using packer on xenserver,but i have got the below error, could you please anyone help me on this,Thanks in advance.
[root@localhost bin]# packer build /usr/...
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cannot connect to ec2 instance created by packer image
I have written packer script to create image in aws. After executing the packer script it is running a ec2 instance which is using pem file created by packer. But how can I know which pem file packer ...
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Packer errors with qemu-system-aarch64
I have some success creating Vagrant base boxes with Packer for x86 and x86_64 guests, including VirtualBox, VMware, and qemu hypervisors. Now, I want to start making ARM guests with Packer and qemu, ...
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Create a VM using terraform on an Azure image created by Packer
Team,
I need to provision an Azure VM (Windows/Linux) and I followed the below link to create the image first.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/build-image-with-packer
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Packer Works Locallly but fails in Gitlab CI/CD w/ executable file not found in $PATH
Here is a snippet of my JSON file for packer. Pretty much running packer build example.json via adhoc - it works smoothly and builds the AMI out in AWS. When i execute this in my GitLabCI Pipeline, it ...
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Packer failing sysprep on AWS windows 2016 AMI
Packer seems to fail at the Amazon Scripts to sysprep the machine. I have tried a bunch of different things. Putting the scripts in their own script, running, them 'inline' like many people show but ...
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Running VMWare Workstation 14 on a VM [closed]
I have set up VMWare Workstation on a esxi 6.0 hosted VM. (Ubuntu 16.04.05)
I am trying to run some packer builds that use the specific (VMWare Workstation) hypervisor.
The builds get stuck ...
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inconsistent `apt-get update` behaviour on official Ubuntu AWS AMI
I get various and inconsistent errors with apt on the official Ubuntu images (ami-83e769fb). I'm using Packer to build my AMI and it fails about 40% of the time. Rerunning the script succeeds.
My ...
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serverspec nginx should be listening using packer
I am using packer to build an ami on aws, after the provision of the ami, I am testing the image using serverspec, but the test fail testing nginx, this is the test
cat test/spec/localhost/...
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How do I use debconf in salt with pillars?
I have the following:
newrelic-debconf:
debconf.set:
- name: newrelic-php5
- data:
'newrelic-php5/application-name': { 'type': 'string', 'value': '{{ salt['pillar.get']('newrelic:...
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How to pass environment variables to packer in AWS?
I am building a custom AMI in AWS using packer and bash + salt provisioning. However, I am in need of being able to pass some variables from my local environment to the build system and I don't really ...
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Packer with ansible from local works but from another server ask for root permissions
For a bit of context, I'm using packer with an ansible provisioner to create AMI images on AWS.
The relevant parts of the packer and ansible:
packer.json
"provisioners": [{
"type": "shell",
"...
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Removing install user with Packer
When a VM is first created, it gets an install user that is used to run the provisioning. I want to remove this user at the last step because it's not necessarily secure and it's unnecessary. However, ...
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Packer won't correctly use private key for SSH auth in provisioning step
I use Packer to build VirtualBox images, with the Ansible provisioner to set up the images. The builder step creates a temporary user (ssh_username and ssh_password). The Ansible provisioner runs ...
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Data disappears after launching EC2 instance from AMI
I am launching an EC2 instance out of an AMI that i am building using packer . In packer build i specify a provisioning shell script which will mount the drives as well as get some files from S3 ...
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Packer - AWS Windows 2016 SysPrep returns exit code 1
When attempting to SysPrep an AWS Windows Server 2016 instance using Packer the following error is thrown:
Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 1. Allowed exit codes ...
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Building an AMI using Packer with a shell provisioner
I'm trying to create an AMI (based on ubuntu; ami-2d39803a) that I can reuse for a project with the a set of components installed. I'm using packer to achieve this with a shell script that gets ...
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Sysprepping with packer.io returns exit 1, packer doesn't create AMI
I'm trying to build a Windows AMI with packer.io.
In the powershell file I have run the following command as the last command of the provisioning step:
Write-Host "Running the EC2Config.exe file ...
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Using Packer to build a GCE with "error creating instance" error, next steps?
I've been working with using Packer v0.10.1 to build an image and am running into this access security issue when trying to run via Hashicorp's Atlas tool.
Packer v0.10.1
[1;32mgooglecompute ...
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