Troubleshooting: Failure on Building Custom AMI with CircleCI Image Builder

Overview

You can see NoCredentialProviders error while utilizing our open source to build your customer images.

• For Windows image: circleci-server-windows-image-builder
• For Linux image: circleci-server-linux-image-builder

Failed by NoCredentialProviders Error

The Build images step fails by the NoCredentialProviders error like the below:

no valid credential sources for found.\n\nPlease see \nfor more information about providing credentials.\n\nError: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.\n For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors

Solution

Check whether the name of your contexts matches the one defined on the config.yml file.

• contexts

• .circleci/config.yml

workflows:
  build_aws_2019:
    jobs:
      - windows_visualstudio_aws_2019:
          context: CPE_ORBS_AWS
          filters: *filters

Additional Resources:

• [Server] Customizing your VM Service AMI