Custom AMI using Packer - Hashicorp Packer - CI/CD Pipeline

• Implemented CI/CD for Building AMIs with GitHub Actions
• Created AMI that can be shared between multiple AWS accounts
• AMI will setup the environment for the node.js and will install aws-codedeploy agent in us-east-1 region.
• For this project AMI will be created in dev account and will be shared with prod account.

Github Secrets

1. aws_access_key (for dev account ghactions user)
2. aws_secret_key (for dev account ghactions user)
3. aws_region (us-east-1)
4. aws_ami_users (production aws account id)

Command for validating and building AMI

1. packer validate ami.json
2. packer build ami.json

Download packer

Download Packer update demo2