Accept Terms on EC2 deployment

[cra-schleupen]

I'm deploying Flatcar on EC2 with terraform. When I (re-)deploy the instance, I get an error message:

Error: creating EC2 Instance: operation error EC2: RunInstances, https response error StatusCode: 401, RequestID:[...], api error OptInRequired: In order to use this AWS Marketplace product you need to accept terms and subscribe. To do so please visit https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp?sku=...

I need to visit that page, accept the terms, wait 5 min and need to re-run terraform plan/apply.

This happens on first deploy into an AWS account and when I redeploy the instance after the latest version changes. I'm using the terraform code from the official docs (this doesn't include any comments about Terms/Subscription).

This renders the image usage impossible, especially since I need to accept those terms in every account. I can't imaging that is how the image is supposed to be used in production.

I read some comments, like this one that they couldn't reproduce the issue. I already talked to our governance guys, they're not aware of any policy, that could enforce this behavior.

Can anyone give a hint about how to handle this?

[tormath1]

Hello @cra-schleupen thanks for opening this. Can you try to update this line:
https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-terraform/blob/f2a215ceec284315915bdcd6a243ac298ccb263e/aws/aws-ec2-machines.tf#L103

with:

  owners      = ["075585003325"]

?

[cra-schleupen]

Using that owner it works without issues. But I'm not too thrilled about using a community AMI. Is there an option for Kinvolk to change their policy about the official Marketplace AMIs?

I mean, it literally says

Starting from $0.00 to $0.00/hr for software

[tormath1]

I am investigating on this license thing. In the meantime, note that the images from the marketplace and from the "community" account are the exact same Flatcar image under the hood and they are published at the same moment during the release.