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packer-aws-ubuntu-ami

Installation

1. Set-up AWS credentials

Please reference: Configuring the AWS CLI

2. Install Packer: Official Document

On Mac

brew install packer

On Ubuntu

# Download the latest precompiled binary, get the suitable package here: https://www.packer.io/downloads.html
# ex: https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.3.2/packer_1.3.2_linux_amd64.zip
wget ${PACKAGE_URL} 
# ex: packer_1.3.2_linux_amd64.zip
unzip ${PACKER_ZIP_FILE}

3. Install jq: Official Download website

On Mac

brew install jq

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install jq

4. Install gnu-sed (Only on Mac)

OSX's sed is BSD version. In order to align the sed command on Ubuntu GNU version, please install gnu-sed. On Mac

brew install gnu-sed

Usage

Use init-packer.sh to build AMI

init-packer.sh will check:

  1. Upstream Ubuntu official AMI
  2. Latest git commit hash

Command

bash init-packer.sh ${AWS_OWNER} ${AWS_REGION} ${UBUNTU_VERSION} ${AWS_VOLUME} ${AMI_ARCH}

Example

bash init-packer.sh 100005588888 ap-southeast-1 18.04 hvm:ebs-ssd amd64