#packer - April 2020

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Discuss Packer for building AMIs and Docker Images
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ikaralmost 6 years ago

Hi there!
haven't done my research yet, but quite curious about HCL & packer - is it possible to "import modules"? I'll have about 5 AMIs to pack and all JSONs look the same except for 1 parameter.
Anyone have a solution? 🙂

Abel Luckalmost 6 years ago

I usually use a Makefile with an environment variable to build AMIs dynamically with packer

Abel Luckalmost 6 years ago

make your 1 param an env var in the packer json, and then write a Makefile that sets the var and calls packer once for each value

ikaralmost 6 years ago

oh, good idea! you use HCL or JSON for that?

Abel Luckalmost 6 years ago

i've only used JSON with packer

Abel Luckalmost 6 years ago

haven't had time to try out HCL with packer yet

ikaralmost 6 years ago

cool 😎 thanks!

RBalmost 6 years ago

anyone know how to retrieve the source ami date ?

Abel Luckalmost 6 years ago

Anyone seen/used https://github.com/wata727/packer-post-processor-amazon-ami-management ?

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