faq.md

FAQ for the Provisioner

Frequently Asked Questions... or rather common problems that people have hit.

Problem: boto3 missing

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 1, "changed": false, "msg": "Python modules \"botocore\" or \"boto3\" are missing, please install both"}

OR

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 1, "changed": false, "msg": "boto is required for this module"}

Solution:

pip install boto boto3

Problem: Unable to locate credentials

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: NoCredentialsError: Unable to locate credentials
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 1, "changed": false, "msg": "Failed to describe VPCs: Unable to locate credentials"}

Solution: Set your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key under ~/.aws/credentials

[root@centos ~]# cat ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
aws_secret_access_key = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

Problem: Not authorized for image

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ClientError: An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeImageAttribute operation: Not authorized for image:ami-26ebbc5c

Solution: Install latest dev of Ansible (will lock down specific version after 2.5 launches)

pip install git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel

Refer to direction for Ansible Installation: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_installation.html

Problem: TASK [connectivity_test : Wait 400 seconds, but only start checking after 30 seconds] ****************************************************