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Hello guys,

I am facing this error when I try to create an new image with packer using my ansible roles:

amazon-ebs: TASK [Install a list of packages] **********************************************
amazon-ebs: fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “You need to be root to perform this command.\n”, “rc”: 1, “results”: [“Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, versionlock\n”]}
amazon-ebs: to retry, use: --limit @/root/docker-ecv/AWS/packages.retry
amazon-ebs:
amazon-ebs: PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
amazon-ebs: default : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
amazon-ebs:
==> amazon-ebs: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present…

packer.json:

{
“variables” : {
“aws_access_key”: “{{env AWS_ACCESS_KEY }}”,
“aws_secret_key”: “{{env AWS_SECRET_KEY }}”
},
“builders”: [{
“vpc_id”: “vpc-xxxxx”,
“subnet_id”: “subnet-xxxxxx”,
“security_group_id”: “sg-xxxxxxxx”,
“region”: “us-east-1”,
“type”:“amazon-ebs”,
“instance_type”: “t2.micro”,
“ssh_username”: “centos”,
“ami_name”: “packer-ecv-{{timestamp}}”,
“access_key”: “{{user aws_access_key}}”,
“secret_key”: “{{user aws_secret_key}}”,

    "source_ami_filter": {
        "filters" : {
            "virtualization-type": "hvm",
            "root-device-type":"ebs",
            "name" : "CiscoHardened-CentOS7_HVM_EBS-*"
        }, 
    "owners" : [352039262102],
    "most_recent": true
    }
}],
"provisioners" : [{
    "type" : "ansible",
    "ansible_env_vars": [ "ANSIBLE_NOCOLOR=True" ],
    "extra_arguments": [ "--become" ],
    "playbook_file" : "packages.yml"
},
{    
    "type" : "ansible",
    "playbook_file" : "ecv.yml"
}]

}

packages.yml

  • name: Install packages
    hosts: all
    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo
    become: yes
    tasks:

    • name: Install a list of packages
      yum:
      name:
      - unzip
      - bzip2
      - deltarpm
      - epel-release
      - python3
      state: present

    • name: ensure a list of packages installed
      yum:
      name: “{{ packages }}”
      vars:
      packages:
      - unzip
      - bzip2
      - deltarpm
      - epel-release
      - python3

evc.yml

  • name: Install ECV
    hosts: all
    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo
    become: yes

    roles:

    • ansible-vault-install
    • ansible-consul-install
    • ansible-envoy

    - ansible-vault-cluster # next

    - ansible-tls-utils

    - ansible-vault-connect-pki

    - ansible-consul-cluster

    - ansible-vault

Do you know what can I do to resolve it?

Regards
RG