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=Build an Amazon EC2 AMI=
=Build an Amazon EC2 AMI=
==Credentials==
Amazon credentials can be provided in the template (not recommended) or as environment variables in the context packer is executed:
<syntaxhighlight lang='bash'>
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"
$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-west-2"
</syntaxhighlight>
then
<syntaxhighlight lang='bash'>
packer build ...
</syntaxhighlight>
==Build==


  packer build <''template-name''>.json
  packer build <''template-name''>.json

Revision as of 01:19, 15 November 2019

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Build an Amazon EC2 AMI

Credentials

Amazon credentials can be provided in the template (not recommended) or as environment variables in the context packer is executed:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="anaccesskey"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="asecretkey"
$ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-west-2"

then

packer build ...

Build

packer build <template-name>.json