Some time ago the Windows host we were using as a Nomad client agent test target
started failing to allow ssh connections. The underlying problem appears to be
with sysprep but I wasn't able to debug the exact cause as it's not an area I
have a lot of expertise in.
Swap out the deprecated Windows 2016 host for a Windows 2022 host. This will use
a base image provided by Amazon and then we'll use a userdata script to
bootstrap ssh and some target directories for Terraform to upload files to. The
more modern Windows will let us drop some of extra powershell scripts we were
using as well.
Fixes: https://hashicorp.atlassian.net/browse/NMD-151
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-e2e/issues/125
The process by which we tag AMIs with the commit SHA of the Packer directory
isn't documented in this repository, which makes it easy to accidentally build
an AMI that will break nightly E2E.
Small changes to the Windows 2016 Packer build for debuggability of
provisioning:
* improve verbosity of powershell error handling
* remove unused "tools" installation
* use ssh communicator for Packer to improve Packer build times and eliminate
deprecated winrm remote access (unavailable from current macOS)
We intend to expand the nightly E2E test to cover multiple distros and
platforms. Change the naming structure for "Linux client" to the more precise
"Ubuntu Bionic", and "Windows" to "Windows 2016" to make it easier to add new
targets without additional refactoring.
Includes:
* baseline Windows AMI
* initial pass at Terraform configurations
* OpenSSH for Windows
Using OpenSSH is a lot nicer for Nomad developers than winrm would be,
plus it lets us avoid passing around the Windows password in the
clear.
Note that now we're copying up all the provisioning scripts and
configs as a zipped bundle because TF's file provisioner dies in the
middle of pushing up multiple files (whereas `scp -r` works fine).
We're also running all the provisioning scripts inside the userdata by
polling for the zip file to show up (gross!). This is because
`remote-exec` provisioners are failing on Windows with the same symptoms as:
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/17728
If we can't fix this, it'll prevent us from having multiple Windows
clients running until TF supports count interpolation in the
`template_file`, which is planned for a later 0.12 release.
Make a clear split between Packer and Terraform provisioning steps:
the scripts in the `packer/linux` directory are run when we build the
AMI whereas the stuff in shared are run at Terraform provisioning time.
Merging all runtime provisioning scripts into a single script for each
of server/client solves the following:
* Userdata scripts can't take arguments, they can only be templated
and that means we have to do TF escaping in bash/powershell scripts.
* TF provisioning scripts race with userdata scripts.
