Hi Trey, Thanks for the reply and apologies for the late reply.
Attached full playbook and packer file to see if that helps. rather new to
both, so stumbling along. Will read up on register etc and try them! thanks
.
S
On Friday, 13 September 2019 18:49:21 UTC+1, trey perrone wrote:
>
> Also, i apparently didn't read it all...derp.
>
> I do not have an issue running my similar playbooks with packer and the
> normal admin account w autogenerated password. Are you elevating or
> changing user contexts somewhere else in ansible.cfg, etc? i dont see
> become or become_method in your playbooks attached. If you are using an
> account with admin priv on the windows box, then there shouldn't be a need
> to elevate/runas.
>
>
> On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 4:03:21 PM UTC-4, Stephen Bennett wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have ansible doing application installs and everything else (Ie must be
>> running in admin) i want from a packer build, but when it comes to running
>> a ansible windows-update it errors out with:
>>
>> TASK [Install all security, critical, and rollup updates]
>> **********************
>> amazon-ebs: An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full
>> traceback, use -vvv. The error was: KeyError: 'runas'
>> amazon-ebs: fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected failure
>> during module execution.", "stdout": ""}
>> amazon-ebs: to retry, use: --limit
>> @/home/vsts/work/1/s/packer/hardening-win/ansible/hardening.retry
>>
>>
>> Ansible file:
>>
>> ---
>> - hosts: all
>> tasks:
>> - name: Install all security, critical, and rollup updates
>> win_updates:
>> category_names:
>> - SecurityUpdates
>> - CriticalUpdates
>> - UpdateRollups
>>
>> - hosts: all
>> tasks:
>> - name: Reboot, if needed
>> win_reboot:
>> when: update_result.reboot_required
>>
>>
>> Packer provisioner:
>>
>> {
>> "type": "ansible",
>> "playbook_file": "{{ template_dir }}/ansible/hardening.yml",
>> "extra_arguments": [
>> "--connection", "packer",
>> "--extra-vars", "ansible_shell_type=powershell
>> ansible_shell_executable=None"
>> ]
>> }
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on a fix or a better way to do windows patching?
>>
>> Thanks
>> S
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