log in and try

find / -name 'ansible-playbook'

make sure that path is in the PATH of the user that run packer

if ansible-playbook is on /sbin or /usr/sbin or /opt/bin may not be
available to any user



On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Gaurav Rastogi <gau...@flux7.com> wrote:

> ummm define properly :)
> Good question though. Installing ansible on an amazon ec2 instance is a
> pain in itself. So for the ec2-user, i can call out ansible with out any
> issues. I did have to jump through loops to get it installed. I'm thinking
> that whatever user packer runs as isn't able to find ansible. I want to
> figure out which user that is and then somehow export PATH for that user to
> make this successful.
>
> When you say this worked for you, you have an ec2 machine with jenkins,
> packer and ansible installed and using jenkins job it was able to run with
> out failing?
>
> it may not be fruitful but I i'm going to try running packer directly to
> observe the result.
>
> Thanks for responding, hope you have some more inputs for me.
>
> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 2:53:59 PM UTC-4, Megan Marsh wrote:
>>
>> This works for me... do you have ansible installed properly on the
>> machine that's running packer?
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Gaurav Rastogi <grast...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm running an ec2 instance on aws. On this instance, I have jenkins,
>>> ansible and packer. I've created a jenkins job which uses the packer plugin
>>> and runs the packer.json file locally. When I run the job it fails with
>>> below output from jenkins console:
>>>
>>> Started by user admin <http://18.221.183.50/user/admin>
>>> Building in workspace /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/packer
>>> [packer] $ /usr/local/packer/packer build -debug 
>>> /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/getrepopacker/packer.json
>>> Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.
>>>  [1;32mamazon-ebs output will be in this color. [0m
>>>
>>> 1 error(s) occurred:
>>>
>>> * Error running "ansible-playbook --version": exec: "ansible-playbook": 
>>> executable file not found in $PATH
>>> Finished: FAILURE
>>> Build step 'Packer' marked build as failure
>>> Finished: FAILURE
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any clues on how to solve this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
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