Terraform: Error waiting for AMI: unexpected state 'failed', wanted target 'available'

Created on 12 Aug 2015 · 9Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

Hey there, I'm in the process of switching from AWS EC2 packer builds to using VPS. I first build a base image installing debian, nginx, and configuring things. Later, I use that base image to install a node app on top. This worked great before changing to VPS. Now I'm seeing this error.

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Can you think of any possible issues?

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bevacqua

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Turns out our problem was that we hit the snapshot limit. Use trusted adviser's performance tab to check.

eikenb on 1 Sep 2015

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It didn't happen the second time around, though.

bevacqua on 12 Aug 2015

@bevacqua this looks like a Packer issue rather than a Terraform one. Did you mean to open this in the Packer repo?

apparentlymart on 13 Aug 2015

Oops. Sorry about that.

bevacqua on 13 Aug 2015

I couldn't find a packer issue about this? I'm seeing this same issue, was it resolved or is there a packer issue I'm am missing? Thanks.

eikenb on 31 Aug 2015

It went away and I never saw it again so I didn't open another one over at the packer repo

bevacqua on 31 Aug 2015

Transient AWS a potential diagnosis... so that helps. Thanks.

eikenb on 1 Sep 2015

Turns out our problem was that we hit the snapshot limit. Use trusted adviser's performance tab to check.

eikenb on 1 Sep 2015

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Yes, I had a similar issue. Resolved after increasing soft limit for snapshot from 10K to 20K

aravindgv on 11 Sep 2018

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