Im using Packer to deploy a firewall and after deployment I want to disable SSH. I’ve tested using a provisioner but I get an error when to the connection drops. How do I handle this error?
It comes as no surprise that the connection drops after you disable ssh, since Packer is probably using the SSH communicator to provision the machine.
The way I understand it, unless you
- use another communicator to apply the configuration
- delay application of the firewall until next reboot
you can’t get around this issue.