[chef] 'knife ec2 server create' through gateway hangs, but 'knife bootstrap' works fine

["Christopher J. Bottaro" < >]

I followed the Server Fault answer here:  http://serverfault.com/questions/641951/knife-cant-ssh-into-newly-instantiated-ec2-server

But it still doesn't work.

The instance is launched fine, but it waits forever on the "waiting for sshd" step.

The weird part is that if I run knife bootstrap directly on the private ip (using the --ssh-gateway) option, it works fine.

Here is the knife command I'm using:

bundle exec knife ec2 server create \

--environment edge \

--node-name edge-db-e-clients-01 \

--subnet subnet-xxx \

--flavor m3.medium \

--image ami-xxx \

--security-group-ids sg-xxx \

--iam-profile node \

--ssh-user ubuntu \

--ssh-key provisioner \

--ssh-gateway "> \

--server-connect-attribute private_ip_address \

--no-host-key-verify \

--ebs-size 50 \

--ephemeral /dev/sdb,/dev/sdc,/dev/sdd,/dev/sde \

--json-attributes '{"route53":{"value_src":"local_ipv4","type":"A"}}' \

--run-list recipe[aw_base::default],recipe[aw_base::auto_dns]

The output of that gets stuck here:

Waiting for sshd access to become available

DEBUG: Using ssh gateway  ">  from knife config

Here is the knife bootstrap command that works fine through the gateway:

bundle exec knife bootstrap 10.x.x.x \

--environment edge \

--node-name edge-db-e-clients-01 \

--ssh-user ubuntu \

--ssh-gateway "> \

--sudo \

--json-attributes '{"route53":{"value_src":"local_ipv4","type":"A"}}' \

--run-list recipe[aw_base::default],recipe[aw_base::auto_dns]

Any ideas?  Thanks for the help.