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[KubernetesEnjoyer]

I have to say that SSH connection from Packer to aws Windows servers seems to be very complicated (need to install OpenSSH into server and etc.)
Myself used WinRM, just needed to play a bit with Firewall and certificate in the "original" AMI to have HTTPS port open and avoid timeouts in the packer :)
By the way thanks for the videos, I'm just started learning terraform/packer and its really nice to see your content.

[simplyviki]

Not sure why the ssh connection is failing, the aws profile I set is connected to the new user I created( it has admin credentials). Getting the below error

==> amazon-ebs: Launching a source AWS instance...
==> amazon-ebs: Adding tags to source instance
amazon-ebs: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"
amazon-ebs: Instance ID: i-0121095fcf866fa7b
==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for instance (i-0121095fcf866fa7b) to become ready...
==> amazon-ebs: Using ssh communicator to connect: ipaddress
==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> amazon-ebs: Error waiting for SSH: Packer experienced an authentication error when trying
to connect via SSH. This can happen if your username/password are wrong. You may want to doubl
e-check your credentials as part of your debugging process. original error: ssh: handshake fai
led: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods rem
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