when running packer build, I am getting Error while Waiting for WinRM to become available... and failing after 15 minutes. Any suggestions, please!
I am using packer -version --> 1.5.5
Running the packer build as packer build packer-aws-windows-ami.json
Details are given below:-
Execution Logs:
amazon-ebs: output will be in this color.==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating any provided VPC information==> amazon-ebs: Prevalidating AMI Name: Nigam-Packer-Win2016-Test amazon-ebs: Found Image ID: ami-0b2ce977c1b36856d==> amazon-ebs: Creating temporary keypair: packer_5ea79a20-dd01-a7d5-6760-xa134e097ff1==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder" amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-025xebcexa6b7cc28==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-025xebcexa6b7cc28) to become ready...==> amazon-ebs: Skipping waiting for password since WinRM password set...==> amazon-ebs: Using winrm communicator to connect: 16.226.144.187==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for WinRM to become available...==> amazon-ebs: Timeout waiting for WinRM.==> amazon-ebs: Terminating the source AWS instance...==> amazon-ebs: Cleaning up any extra volumes...==> amazon-ebs: No volumes to clean up, skipping==> amazon-ebs: Deleting temporary keypair...Build 'amazon-ebs' errored: Timeout waiting for WinRM.==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:--> amazon-ebs: Timeout waiting for WinRM.==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.packer-aws-windows-ami.json
{"variables": {"build_version": "{{isotime \"2020.04.29.103307\"}}","aws_access_key": "{{env `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`}}","aws_secret_key": "{{env `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`}}","region": "us-east-2","instance_type": "t3.large","vpc_id": "myvpc","subnet_id": "mysubnet","ssh_keypair_name": "./key.pem","security_group_id": "sg-id","user_data_file": "userdata.txt","name": "Packer_AMI_TEST" },"builders": [ {"type": "amazon-ebs","access_key": "{{ user `aws_access_key` }}","secret_key": "{{ user `aws_secret_key` }}","region": "{{ user `region` }}","ami_name": "Test_Packer-Win-{{timestamp}}","source_ami_filter": {"filters": {"name": "Windows_Server-2016-English-Full-Base-*","root-device-type": "ebs","virtualization-type": "hvm" },"most_recent": true,"owners": ["amazon"] },"instance_type": "{{user `instance_type`}}","vpc_id": "{{user `vpc_id`}}","subnet_id": "{{user `subnet_id`}}","security_group_id": "{{user `security_group_id`}}","user_data_file": "{{user `user_data_file`}}","ami_name": "Nigam-Packer-Win2016-Test","ssh_private_key_file": "{{user `ssh_keypair`}}","associate_public_ip_address": true,"communicator": "winrm","winrm_username": "Administrator","winrm_password": "SuperS3cr3t!","winrm_timeout": "15m","winrm_use_ssl": true,"winrm_insecure": true } ],"provisioners": [ {"type": "powershell","inline": ["Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-WebServerRole","Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-WebServer" ] }, {"type": "windows-restart","restart_check_command": "powershell -command \"& {Write-Output 'Machine restarted.'}\"" }, {"type": "powershell","inline": ["C:\\ProgramData\\Amazon\\EC2-Windows\\Launch\\Scripts\\InitializeInstance.ps1 -Schedule","C:\\ProgramData\\Amazon\\EC2-Windows\\Launch\\Scripts\\SysprepInstance.ps1 -NoShutdown" ] }]}userdata.txt
# Create username and passwordnet user Administrator SuperS3cr3t!!!wmic useraccount where "name='Administrator'" set PasswordExpires=FALSESet-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine -Force -ErrorAction Ignore# Don't set this before Set-ExecutionPolicy as it throws an error$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"# Remove HTTP listenerRemove-Item -Path WSMan:\Localhost\listener\listener* -Recurse# Create a self-signed certificate to let ssl work$Cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertstoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\My -DnsName "packer"New-Item -Path WSMan:\LocalHost\Listener -Transport HTTPS -Address * -CertificateThumbPrint $Cert.Thumbprint -Force# WinRMwrite-output "Setting up WinRM"write-host "(host) setting up WinRM"# Configure WinRM to allow unencrypted communication, and provide the# self-signed cert to the WinRM listener.cmd.exe /c winrm quickconfig -qcmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service"'@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/client"'@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service/auth"'@{Basic="true"}'cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/client/auth"'@{Basic="true"}'cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service/auth"'@{CredSSP="true"}'cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS""@{Port=`"5986`";Hostname=`"packer`";CertificateThumbprint=`"$($Cert.Thumbprint)`"}"# Make sure appropriate firewall port openings existcmd.exe /c netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote administration" new enable=yescmd.exe /c netsh firewall add portopening TCP 5986 "Port 5986"# Restart WinRM, and set it so that it auto-launches on startup.cmd.exe /c net stop winrmcmd.exe /c sc config winrm start= autocmd.exe /c net start winrm