AutoScaling group in web stack fails to launch, PHP55 not avialable

[awsdiegorad]

Currently, it does not seem to be possible to launch the "Web" stack. The Auto Scaling Group resource, with logical ID "WebAutoScalingGroup" will fail to create with an error stating that 0 Success signals were received from the generated instances

==== Received 0 SUCCESS signal(s) out of 2. Unable to satisfy 100% MinSuccessfulInstancesPercent requirement

Taking a look at the console logs of one of the generated instances, I see that the "php55-pear" package is not available for installation, failing the run.

+ /opt/aws/bin/cfn-init --configsets deploy_webserver --verbose --stack WordPress1-web-PPL1N99D78WX --resource WebLaunchConfiguration55 --region us-east-1
Error occurred during build: Yum does not have php55-pear available for installation
Sep 26 03:15:03 cloud-init[2439]: util.py[WARNING]: Failed running /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001 [1]
Sep 26 03:15:03 cloud-init[2439]: cc_scripts_user.py[WARNING]: Failed to run module scripts-user (scripts in /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts)
Sep 26 03:15:03 cloud-init[2439]: util.py[WARNING]: Running module scripts-user (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_scripts_user' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_user.pyc'>) failed

Checking the CloudFormation template, I see that there are 3 different versions available of php (php55, php56, and php70). I tried installing each of this packages on a stand alone EC 2 instance, and found that none of them are available.

[root@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx ec2-user]# yum install php55
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
No package php55 available.
Error: Nothing to do

[root@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx ec2-user]# yum install php56
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
No package php56 available.
Error: Nothing to do

[root@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xxx ec2-user]# yum install php70
Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
No package php70 available.
Error: Nothing to do

[dominic-pucci]

So, there are several related problems to this. After digging into the template, it looks like someone changed the available PHP versions to:

PHPVersion:
    AllowedValues:
    - 8.1
    - 8.0
    - 7.4
    Default: 8.1
    Description: The version of PHP to install.
    Type: String 

But, they didn't change any of corresponding launch configurations. The only change that actually happened is:

 PHP55:
    !Equals [ 8.1, !Ref PHPVersion ]
  PHP56:
    !Equals [ 8.0, !Ref PHPVersion ]
  PHP70:
    !Equals [ 7.4, !Ref PHPVersion ]

This then obviously causes a parameter value of 8.1 to deploy the PHP 5.5 Launch Configuration.