devops-basics
Build an Ubuntu machine image on AWS with Packer
Prerequisites
- AWS account
- Packer installed
- Authenticate to AWS
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>" export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>" - Doc: https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicorp/amazon#iam-task-or-instance-role
Init
packer init .
Build
packer build aws-ubuntu.pkr.hcl
# ...
# ==> Wait completed after 5 minutes 15 seconds
# ==> Builds finished. The artifacts of successful builds are:
# --> learn-packer.amazon-ebs.ubuntu: AMIs were created:
# us-west-2: ami-xxxxyyyyzzzztttt
Verify
- Go to AWS Console
us-west-2(The region we build packer AMI): https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#Images:visibility=owned-by-me - You now can see your AMI with name:
learn-packer-linux-aws-redis-<timestamp>
Cleanup
- Once you dont want to use the AMI anymore, follow https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/deregister-ami.html to delete it.