version_string missing about vyos-build-ami HOT 3 CLOSED

I fixed the above issue by editing playbooks/build-ami.yml and hardcoding the version string there (tempfix).

my OSX laptop was having issues resolving location of boto (I hate brew) and I decided to use a docker container to run the script. after some debugging, I managed to get a snapshot of the built disk, however ansible failed on awscli creating the ami (I guess because my awscli was configured for ap-southeast-1 region).

I noticed that the script group_vars uses us-east-1. I decided to set us-east-1 for my aws-configure as well, hoping the snapshot would be successfully converted into an AMI, but since then I've not been able to get past the following error message:

No such file or directory: u'.tmp/vyos-build-ami.pem'

I did manually created the key-pair and added the private key under that path, followed by chmod 600 on the file (avoiding the above error), but then the script still fails connecting to the Instance (I haven't been able to figure out why yet).

Here's the Dockerfile I used:

FROM alpine:3.4

RUN apk add --update bash git python python-dev py-pip build-base libffi-dev openssl-dev groff

RUN pip install awscli ansible boto
RUN git clone https://github.com/vyos/build-ami.git
WORKDIR /build-ami
RUN git submodule update --init playbooks/filter_plugins/ansible-string-split-filter

CMD ["bash"]

Build image:

docker build -t build-ami .

Running a container from that image:

docker run -it build-ami

Once in the image run aws configure and provide all details.
Review playbooks/build-ami.yml and playbooks/group_vars/all

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solution to my issue was to add symlink to the ssh-key dump which was in the playbook sub directory instead of the shell script directory.

ln -s $PWD/playbooks/.tmp/vyos-build-ami.pem .tmp/vyos-build-ami.pem

also, the vyos-build-ami.sh had hardcoded string playbooks/files/ssh-keys/vyos-build-ami.pem as private key, I changed it to point to correct path.

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seems all of these issues are specific to the vyos/build-ami fork of this repo

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