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Login node for shared cluster (for use with training accounts)

Clean up AMIs 

Console > Services > EC2 > AMIs > Select > Right Click > Deregister > Continue

Open cloud9 

Console > Services > Cloud9 > Open IDE

Download Tutorial Files 

cd ~ && wget -c https://github.com/utdsimmons/pearc2020/raw/master/ohpc-pearc20-tutorial.tar.bz2 -O - | tar -xj

Packer build not working as expected

Check the following:

  • Did you download and install Packer from Hashicorp? If you missed this step, you may be using an unrelated application already installed on the Cloud9 environment.
  • Are your account API keys in place? Packer uses API calls to walk through the image generation steps, and requires the ability to perform a few EC2-related actions. The easiest way to have API keys available to Packer is to set them as environment variables - in EventEngine, simply paste the full set of credentials from the dashboard into your terminal. In a standard account, set the two keys downloaded from your IAM console to AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.

Packer Sanity Check


 $ md5sum `which packer`
779d009e3f39c2d167191962b16a304b  /home/ec2-user/bin/packer

AWS Credential Check:


$ env | grep -i "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID\|AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If either is not set, the tutorial will not work.