amazon-ssm-agent not working on Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS)

[TravellingGuy]

The amazon-ssm-agent seems to rely on upstart to stop/start, but upstart is deprecated on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (in favour of systemd).

[shihuazhang]

Hi TravellingGuy,
We are aware of the issue, the team is working on the fixes.
Thanks for your comment

[vladgh]

Any update on this?

[shihuazhang]

SSM Agent 1.2.290.0 with Ubuntu 16 support is ready for download.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-us-east-1/latest/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb

Please give it a try and let us know if you encounter any issue.

[PeteLawrence]

@shihuazhang That link you give appears to be a previous version - 1.2.252.0. The Last-Modified header returns 'Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:25:18 GMT'

[shihuazhang]

@PeteLawrence My apologizes, the release hasn't been rolled-out to us-east-1 yet.

Please feel free to grab it from here.
https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon-ssm-eu-central-1/1.2.290.0/debian_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.deb

[stephonchen]

@shihuazhang
Thanks for patching this package.
But amazon-ssm-agent would not be auto started in Ubuntu 16.04 due to systemd not set up.
Would you like to patch post-{rm, install} command to achieve this?

Sample:
# systemctl enable amazon-ssm-agent.service
# systemctl start amazon-ssm-agent.service

Thanks a lot