Packer builder plugin that allows to AMI from empty volume.
{
"type": "amazon-scratch",
"region": "ap-northeast-1",
"source_ami": "ami-936d9d93",
"subnet_id": "subnet-XXX",
"associate_public_ip_address": true,
"instance_type": "t2.micro",
"ssh_username": "ubuntu",
"ami_name": "packer {{timestamp}}",
"worker_device_name": "/dev/sdf",
"volume_size": 4,
"volume_type": "gp2"
}this will starts instance with 4GB gp2 EBS, using ami-936d9d93. Then provision your stuff on /dev/sdf.
Finally /dev/sdf will be used as root block device on new AMI.
- amazon-chroot doesn't allow do something on host machine -- it runs all commands in chrooted environment.
- amazon-chroot requires run
packeron an existing EC2 instance, but this doesn't. - this launches
source_amito create AMI, each time. - this creates empty EBS. amazon-chroot always requires source AMI as base.
sorah
MIT License