Build of an AMI with HCP Packer Registry integration and with skip_create_ami = true ends up in creating an incomplete Iteration in HCP Packer Registry

[Samuel CHNIBER]

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Overview of the Issue

Build of an AMI with HCP Packer Registry integration and with skip_create_ami = true ends up in creating an incomplete Iteration in HCP Packer Registry.

Reproduction Steps

1/ Export the HCP_CLIENT_SECRET and the HCP_CLIENT_ID locally as per : https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/tutorials/hcp-get-started/hcp-push-image-metadata#create-hcp-service-principal-and-set-to-environment-variable
2/ Run the following:

packer {
  required_plugins {
    amazon = {
      version = ">= 1.0.1"
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/amazon"
    }
  }
}

source "amazon-ebs" "basic-example-east" {
  region = "us-east-2"
  source_ami_filter {
    filters = {
      virtualization-type = "hvm"
      name                = "ubuntu/images/*ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*"
      root-device-type    = "ebs"
    }
    owners      = ["099720109477"]
    most_recent = true
  }
  skip_create_ami = true
  instance_type  = "t2.small"
  ssh_username   = "ubuntu"
  ssh_agent_auth = false
  ami_name       = "packer_AWS_{{timestamp}}"
}

build {
  name = "example-amazon-ebs"
  sources = [ "source.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east"]
  hcp_packer_registry {
    bucket_name = "example-amazon-ebs-custom"
    description = "Golden image for Amazon-backed applications"

    bucket_labels = {
      "team" = "amazon-development",
      "os"   = "Ubuntu"
    }

    build_labels = {
      "python-version"   = "3.9",
      "ubuntu-version" = "Xenial 16.04"
      "build-time" = timestamp()
    }
  }
}

Plugin and Packer version

Packer v1.9.4

Simplified Packer Buildfile

See above

Operating system and Environment details

N/A

Log Fragments and crash.log files

> packer build .
Tracking build on HCP Packer with fingerprint "XXXXX"
example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: output will be in this color.

==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Prevalidating any provided VPC information
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Prevalidating AMI Name: packer_AWS_1695295551
    example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Found Image ID: ami-yyyyyyyyy
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Creating temporary keypair: packer_650c283f-65c4-5efe-ad79-4ee744651510
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Creating temporary security group for this instance: packer_650c2846-a87f-58d6-c7bf-af9608fc299c
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Authorizing access to port 22 from [0.0.0.0/0] in the temporary security groups...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Launching a source AWS instance...
    example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Instance ID: i-qsdqsdqsdqsdqsd
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Waiting for instance (i-qsdqsdqsdqsdqsd) to become ready...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Using SSH communicator to connect: 1.1.1.1
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Connected to SSH!
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Stopping the source instance...
    example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Stopping instance
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Waiting for the instance to stop...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Skipping AMI creation...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Skipping AMI region copy...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Skipping Enable AMI deprecation...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Skipping AMI modify attributes...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Skipping AMI create tags...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Terminating the source AWS instance...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Cleaning up any extra volumes...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: No volumes to clean up, skipping
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Deleting temporary security group...
==> example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east: Deleting temporary keypair...
Error: failed to complete HCP-enabled build "example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east"

failed to update Packer registry with image artifacts for
"amazon-ebs.basic-example-east": setting a build to DONE with no published
images is not currently supported.


Build 'example-amazon-ebs.amazon-ebs.basic-example-east' finished after 1 minute 46 seconds.

==> Wait completed after 1 minute 46 seconds

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

Iteration "XXXXX" is not complete, the following builds are not done:

* "amazon-ebs.basic-example-east": RUNNING

You may resume work on this iteration in further Packer builds by defining the following variable in your environment:
HCP_PACKER_BUILD_FINGERPRINT="XXXXX"

Ideally, HCP Packer Registry push should be ignored by Packer since this is a test build and no AMI will be created upon the packer process.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Bests.