Unable to SSH AWS instance

[joelchen]

Fails to SSH AWS instance on both Mac OSX and Docker Linux container https://github.com/joelchen/docker-streisand:

TASK [genesis-amazon : Wait until the server has finished booting and OpenSSH is accepting connections] ***
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 600, "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for search string OpenSSH in <server IP>:22"}
	to retry, use: --limit @/streisand/playbooks/amazon.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=13   changed=7    unreachable=0    failed=1

Running ssh -i <private key> ubuntu@<server IP> returns:

ssh: connect to host <server IP> port 22: Operation timed out

Running again with ./streisand --limit @/streisand/playbooks/amazon.retry on Mac OSX repeats the prompts from step 1 (Which provider are you using?) and fails the same at OpenSSH.

[joelchen]

Only clue I have got is from ansible/ansible#14237 where the issue is caused by different variable names being used.

[antoineclaval]

I've run into the same issue with similar configuration.

[mjrlee]

What's the state of the server in the EC2 web console?

Is it a member of any security groups, and what are the contents of those security groups?

Are you using an IAM role's API keys for the build or your root keys?

[cpu]

This issue is pretty stale and there are outstanding questions that the OP hasn't replied to. I'm going to close this issue. Please open a new issue if you still have this problem with the tip of master & a new AWS EC2 instance.