I am trying to create an autoscaling group with EC2 instances, I need to completed few tasks as an instance starts up and have created a shell + python3(boto3 script). I need to assign some elastic Ips etc. the instance has an IAM role assigned to it to complete the tasks. I assigned this role while creating the autoscaling group and launch configuration. I add the script as 'user-data' to the instance startup.
I tested the script independently and it works, but unfortunately it doesn't work when the instance is launched and the script is invoked. I get an error "unauthorized" when it tries to run it. Although I can see that the IAM role gets correctly assigned to the instance. I also tried by adding a wait time of about 30 seconds so the role may correctly get assigned to the instance, but that still didn't work.
If I manually invoke the script after logging into the instance, it works. I have tried running the script as both only boto3 and as aws cli commands, I still get unauthorized for both.
Other ways to do it would be that I invoke lambda functions as a target lifecycle hook during startup, but in that case I do not have a way to send the instance id to the function, which I needed for my script.
Not sure what I am doing wrong here. Is there some other way I should invoke the script?
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