I've been experiencing some frustrating issues with our AWS code builds failing, especially since yesterday. It seems we're getting a lot of '403 Forbidden' errors from the Ubuntu archive when trying to fetch certain packages. It's inconsistent – sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, failing on different package sets each time. I ran a successful build about 8 hours after the issue started, but now I'm stuck with errors during the container builds, even though they work perfectly on my local machine. I've tried changing the NAT gateway IP, but that didn't help much either. We're using Ubuntu for our .NET builds since that's what Microsoft provides, but it feels like there's a throttling issue with the archive. Have others faced similar problems? Any insights or workarounds you suggest?
5 Answers
You might want to try changing to a different mirror for downloading packages. It seems like the default mirror is getting hit hard by other AWS users, which could lead to rate-limiting on certain IPs. Another option is to download the .deb files and cache them in S3, so you don’t have to pull from the Ubuntu archive every time you build a container.
I faced similar issues recently. One workaround is to modify your Dockerfile to change the Ubuntu archive source directly. For example, you can run a command to replace 'archive.ubuntu.com' with a different mirror right in your Dockerfile. Just ensure your images reference those build arguments properly.
I can confirm I ran into this issue too. If your pipelines are in a European region, switching to a mirror like the one from the US or even Italy might help you out. I switched to Italy's mirror and it solved my problem temporarily.
The good news is it looks like the issue has resolved itself now, at least for me. Maybe it was just a temporary glitch! Keeping an eye on the mirrors for any unexpected downtime might be worth it.
Seems like this has been happening to quite a few people. Try using the local mirrors; some users have reported better success rates with them. Our CI had similar problems yesterday and today.
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